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CONFEDERATE  STATES  OF  AMERICA, 


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ADJOURNED  CONVENTION  OF  BISHOPS,  CLERGYMEN  AND  LAYMEN  OF 

SAID  CHURCH,  HELD  IN  CHRIST  CHURCH,  COLUMBIA,  S.  C, 

IN  OCTOBER,  1861. 


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At  a  meeting  of  Bishops,  Clergymen  and  Laymen  of  the  Protestant  Episcopal 
Church  in  the  Confederate  States,  held  at  Montgomery,  Alabama,  in  July,  1861,  it  was 

Resolved,  1.  That  the  secession  of  the  States  of  Virginia,  North  Carolina,  South 
Carolina,  Georgia,  Florida,  Alabama,  Mississippi,  Louisiana,  Texas,  Arkansas  and  Ten- 
nessee from  the  United  States,  and  the  formation  by  them  of  a  new  Government  ealled 
the  Confederate  States  of  America,  render  it  necessary  and  expedient  that  the  Dio- 
ceses within  those  States  should  form  among  themselves  an  independent  organization. 

RcsoliV'l,  '-■  That  as  preliminary  to  the  organization  declared  necessary  in  the  fore- 
going Resolution,  a  Committee  of  three  Bishops,  three  Presbyters,  and  three  Laymen, 
be  appointed  by  the  Convention  to  prepare  and  report  to  an  adjourned  meeting  of  this 
Convention,  to  be  held  at  Columbia,  S.  C,  on  the  third  Wednesday  in  October  next,  a 
Constitution  and  Canons,  under  which  such  an  organization  may  be  effected. 

On  this  Committee  were  elected  by  ballot  Bishops  Elliott,  Green  and  Rutledge,  Rev'd 
Dr.  Barnard,  Rev'd  Messrs.  P.  Trapier  and  R.  N.  Pierce,  Hon.  R.  F.  W.  Allston,  A.  W. 
Ellerbe,  Esq.,  and  Hon.  Geo.  S.  Guyon. 

Messrs.  Barnard,  Ellerbe  and  Guyon  being  unable  to  attend,  the  Rev'd*  Mr.  Crane, 
and  Messrs.  Philip  Williams  and  Richard  H.  Smith  were  appointed  in  their  stead. 

The  Committee  prepared  accordingly  a  Proposed  Constitution  which,  on  being  laid 
before  an  adjourned  Convention  from  the  Church  in  all  the  Confederate  States,  held  in 
Columbia,  S.  C,  in  October  last,  was  adopted,  as  hereinafter  printed. 

The  committee  presented  also  the  subsequent  Digest  of  Canons;  and  the  Convention 

Resolved,  That  the  Committee  on  the  Constitution  and  Revised  Canons  be  instructed 
to  print,  in  pamphlet,  the  said  Constitution  and  Canons,  and  to  send  to  the  Secretary  of 
each  Diocesan  Convention  of  the  Protestant  Episcopal  Church  now  in  the  Confederate 
States,  or  which  may  be  so  before  the  first  meeting  of  the  General  Council,  two  copies 
of  the  pamphlet  fof  each  Clergyman  of  the  Protestant  Episcopal  Church  in  said  Diocese. 

The  present  pamphlet  is  accordingly  put  forth  for  the  consideration  of  the  several 
Diocesan  Conventions,  in  order  to  final  action  at  the  next  General  Council,  proposed  to 
be  held  in  Augusta,  Ga.,  in  November,  1862. 

By  order  of  the  Committee. 

PAUL  TRAPIER,  Secretary. 
Camden,  S.  C,  December,  1861. 


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TABLE   OF   CONTENTS. 


TAGf. 

THE  CONSTITUTION 1 


DIGEST  OF  CANONS 7 

TITLE  I. — Of  Candidateship  and  Ordinations 9 

TITLE  II. — General  Regulations  of  Ministers 

AND    THEIR    DUTIES 22 

TITLE  III.— Of  Discipline l\ 

TITLE  IV. — Of  Organized  Bodies  and  Officers 

of  the  Church 58 

TITLE  V. — Miscellaneous  Provisions 61 


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DIGEST  OF  THE  CANONS. 

PAGE 

TITLE  I. — Of  Candidateship  and  Ordinations 9 

CANON  I. —  Of  Ecclesiastical  Authority 9 

Canon    II. —  Of   the   Admission   of   Persons    as    Candidates  for 

Deacons'  Orders 9 

$  1.  Notice  of  Intention 9 

I  2.  Certificate 9 

§3.  Admission  and  Record 10 

I  4.  Refusal  to  admit 10 

I  5.  Application  by  a  Minister  of  any  Denomination 10 

§  6.  By  one  not  a  citizen 11 

And  to  Officiate  in  a  Foreign  Language 11 

CANON  III. —  Of  admitted  Candidates  for  Deacons'  Orders 12 

g  1.   Supervision  of  Candidates 12 

§  2.  Habit  of  Devotion 12 

j}  3.  Lay  Readers 12 

#  4.  Transfer  to  other  Dioceses 13 

2*5.  Cause  of  Transfer 13 

CANON  IV. —  General  Provisions  and  Requisites  for  Ordination 13 

^  1.  Previous  application,  and  notice  of  rejection 13 

$  2.  Age  for  Ordination 13 

jj  3.  Candidates  from  Vacant  Dioceses 13 

g  4.  To  Officiate  beyond  the  Confederate  States 13 

\  5.  Times  of  Ordination 14 

CANON  V. — Examinations  and    Testimonials  for   Deacons'    Orders 

and   Ordination 14 

§1.  Examination 14 

ji  2.  Period  of  Candidateship,  and  Testimonials  from  Standing  Com- 
mittee   14 

g  3.  Testimonials  to  Standing  Committee,  and  from  a  Presbyter 15 

§4.  Substitute  Testimonials 15 

§5.  Candidates  from  other  Denominations 15 

#  6.  Candidates  from  other  Countries 16 


X  TABLE     OF     CONTENTS. 

TITLE  I. — Op  Candidateship  and  Ordinations  (Continued). 

PAGE 

Canon  VI. —  Of  Deacons 16 

§  1.  Control  of  Deacons 16 

#  2.  Conditions  of  Officiating 16 

I  3.  Transfer 17 

CANON  VII. —  Ordination  to  the  Priesthood 17 

'iji  1.  Deacon  proceeding  to  Priests'  Orders 17 

g  2.  Examinations 17 

$3.  Dispensations 17 

#4.  Where  there  is  no  Bishop 18 

ij/  5.  Testimonials 18 

$  6.  Substitute  Testimonials 19 

Canon  VIII. —  Of  the  Admission  of  Ministers  Ordained  by  Bishops 

not  in  Communion  to ith  this  Church 19 

Canon   IX. —  Of  Ministers     Ordained    in    Foreign    Countries   by 

Bishops  not  in  Communion  with  this  Church 20 

TITLE   II. — General   Regulations    op    Ministers,    and    their 

Duties 22 

Canon  I. —  The  Consent  necessary  for  Officiating 22 

#  1.  In  case  of  Ministers  22 

#2.  In  case  of  Lay  Readers 22 

Canon  II. —  General  Regulations  of  Ministers 22 

g  1.  Election 22 

And  Institution 23 

£  2.  Certificate  to  Minister  removing  from  one  Diocese  to  another....  23 

§3.  Alms  at  Communion 23 

$  4.  Duty  of  Ministers  about   Confirmations,  and  about  the  state  of 

the  Congregation 23 

And  for  the  Diocesan  Council , 24 

#5.  Parish  Register,  and  List  of  Families 24 

$  6.  Officiating  of  Ministers  in  the  Cures  of  others 24 

Parish  Boundaries 24 

Neglect  of  Ministers  to  Officiate 24 

#  7.  Clerical  Residence 25 

Letters  Dimissory 25 

Reception 25 

Letters  Dimissory,  when  not  required 25 

#  S.  A  Minister  when  settled 26 

Canon  III. —  Of  Bishops 26 

jj    1.  Election  of  Bishop 26 


TABLE     OF     CONTENTS.  xi 

TITLE  II. — General  Regulations  op  Ministers,  &c.  {Continued). 
Canon  III. —  Of  Bishops  (Continued). 

PAGE 

$    2.  Process  for  Consecration 26 

Testimony  from  Diocesan  Council 26 

And  from  Standing  Committees 27 

Consent  of  Bishops 27 

Place  of  Consecration 27 

1  3.  Age 27 

§    4.  Assistant  Bishop , 27 

No  Suffragans 28 

#    5.  Episcopal  Visitations 28 

And  Residence 28 

£    6.  Bishops  absent  for  a  time 28 

%    7.  Forms  of  Prayer  and  Thanksgiving  for  extraordinary  occasions  28 

$    8.  Episcopal  Acts  in  Vacant  Dioceses 29 

j?    9.  Domestic  Missionary  Bishops 29 

Modo  and  Evidence  of  Election 29 

Jurisdiction 29 

Vacancy 29 

Discipline 29 

Seat  in  House  of  Bishops 30 

Eligible  as  Diocesan 30 

May  appoint  Standing  Committee , 30 

Report  to  General  Council 30 

$  10.  Foreign  Missionary  Bishops 30 

Evidence  of  Election 30 

Jurisdiction 30 

Mode  of  Trying  such  Bishop 31 

May  Ordain,  with  what  Testimonials,  Dispensations,  and  Re- 
strictions    31 

Jurisdiction  over  Resident  Clergymen 32 

Standing  Committee 32 

Trials  of  Ministers 32 

By  what  Court 32 

Sentence 33 

Report  to  General  Council 33 

2  11.  Election  of  Missionary  Bishop  as  Diocesan 33 

Diocese   without   a  Bishop   placed   under  charge   of   another 

Bishop 33 

No  other  Bishop  to  Officiate  there  during  such  charge 33 

§12.  Episcopal  Resignations 34 

House  of  Bishops  to  accept  or  refuse 34 

If  during  recess  of  General  Council 34 

Resigned  Bishop  eligible  to  Diocese,  under  what  restrictions 35 

Bishops  without  Charge  subject  to  General  Council 35 

Case  of  Suspended  Bishop  resigning 35 


Xli  TABLE     OP     CONTENTS. 

TITLE  II. — General  Regulations  of  Ministers,  &c.  {Continued). 

PAGE 

CANON  IV. —  Of  a  List  of  the  Ministers  of  tJiis  Church 36 

jS  1.  Secretary  of  House  of  Deputies  to  keep  a  Register 36 

g  2.  Admission  of  Ministers  to  be  notified 36 

CANON  V. —  Of  the   Mode  of  Securing   an  Accurate    View   of  the 

state  of  the    Church 36 

§  1.  Statement  in  Parochial  Reports 36 

Clergymen  not  settled  to  report  service 36 

#  2.  Bishop's  Address 37 

§  3.  Committee  on  the  state  of  the  Church 37 

Pastoral  Letter 37 

$4.  Duty  of  Diocesan  Secretaries 37 

g  5.  Condensed  Report  from  each  Diocese 37 

CANON  VI. —  Of  the  mode  of  publishing  Authorized  Editions  of  the 

Standard  Bible  of  this  Church 38 

CANON  VII. —  Of  publishing   Editions   of   the   Book    of    Common 

Prayer 38 

CANON  VIII. —  Of  Parochial  Instruction 39 

CANON  IX. —  Of  the  Use  of  the  Booh  of  Common  Prayer 39 

§  1.  Use  enjoined 39 

Discretion  allowed 39 

#2.  Special  Services 40 


TABLE     OF     CONTENTS.  X1U 

PAGE 

TITLE  III.— Op  Discipline 41 

Canon  I. —  Of  Amenability  and  Offences  for  which  a  Minister  may 

be  Tried  and  Punished 41 

§  1.  To  whom  Ministers  amenable 41 

$2.  Punishable  Offences 41 

§  3.  Liability  of  Clergymen  presenting  for  Ordination 41 

§4.  Proceeding  on  public  rumour 41 

Canon  II. —  Of  a  Clergyman  in  one  Diocese  or  Missionary  District 

chargeable  with  Misdemeanour  in  another 42 

§  1.  Offence  committed  in  a  different  Diocese 42 

§2.  Bishop  may  admonish,  &c 42 

g  3.  Case  of  Clergymen  Ordained  in  Foreign  Countries 43 

CANON  III. —  Of  Renunciation  of  the  Ministry 43 

§  1.  Where  no  proceeding  is  pending 43 

§2.  Suspension  of  action 43 

§3.  Where  liability  to  Presentment 43 

J  4.  Notice  of  Deposition 44 

CANON  IV. —  Of  the  Abandonment  of  the  Communion  of  this  Church 

by  a  Presbyter  or  Deacon 44 

$  1.  Abandonment  without  Renunciation 44 

Certificate 44 

Notice 44 

§2.  Deposition 44 

Proviso 44 

CANON  V. —  Of  a  Clergyman  absenting  himself  from  his  Diocese....  45 

CANON  VI. —  Of  the  Abandonment  of  the  Communion  of  the  Church 

by  a  Bishop 45 

Canon  VII.— Of  the  Trial  of  a  Bishop 46 

§  1.  Offences 46 

§2.  Charges  in  writing 46 

Action  on  rumours  46 

Lay  Advocate 47 

^3.  Charges  to  whom  delivered 47 

§  4.  Board  of  Inquiry 47 

How  constituted 47 

Notice  to  Members 48 

Place  of  Meeting 48 

Copy  of  Charges 48 

Organization 48 

Sittings  Private 48 


XIV  TABLE     OF     CONTENTS. 

TITLE  III.— Op  Discipline  (Continued). 

Canon  VII. —  Of  the  Trial  of  a  Bishop  (Continued). 

§  4. — (Continued). 

PAGE 

Duty  of  the  Board 4S 

Law  of  Evidence 48 

Presentment 48 

To  whom  to  be  sent 48 

Refusal  to  Present 49 

Bar  to  future  Presentment 49 

Exception 49 

Limitation  of  Time 49 

g  5.  Notices  on  Presentment 49 

To  Accused 49 

And  to  Church  Advocate 49 

Formation  of  Court 49 

Notice  to  Members  of  Court 50 

Summons  to  Accused  and  to  Witnesses 60 

j}  6.  Course  of  proceeding 50 

President  and  Clerk 50 

Non-Appearance  of  Accused 51 

Common  Law  the  rule 51 

Declaration  of  Witness 51 

Deposition  of  Witnesses 51 

Commissary 52 

Cross-Examination 52 

Service  of  Notices,  Papers  and  Certificate 52 

Accused  may  have  Counsel 52 

AVho  must  be  Communicants  53 

Opinion  of  Court 53 

Decision 53 

Accused  to  be  heard 53 

New  Trial 53 

Sentence 53 

Record 54 

Exceptions 54 

How  kept  and  attested 54 

Lay  Advisers 54 

#  7.  Presentment  for  Erroneous  Doctrine 54 

To  whom  addressed 55 

Court 55 

g  8.  Charges  against  Missionary  Bishop 55 

And  Bishop  without  Jurisdiction 55 

CANON  VIII. —  Of  Sentences 55 

§1.  Suspension 55 

\  2.  Degradation 55 

No  restoration 50 

Notice i. 5G 


TABLE     OP     CONTENTS.  XV 

TITLE  III. — Of  Discipline  {Continued). 


PAGE 


Canon  IX. —  Of  Remission  or  Modification  of  Judicial  Sentences...  56 

When,  and  by  how  many 56 

CANON  X. — Regulations  respecting  the  Laity 56 

3  1.  Removal  of  Communicants 56 

§  2.  Minister  repelling  from  Communion  to  inform  the  Bishop 57 

Who  to  inquire  on  complaint 57 


TITLE  IV. — Of  tiie   Organized   Bodies   and   Officers  of   the 

Church 5S 

Canon  I. —  Of  the   General  Council 58 

§1.  Special  Meeting 5S 

By  whom  to  be  called 58 

Where 5S 

Deputies 58 

I  2.  Registrar 58 

His  Duties 58 

To  keep  all  Papers 59 

And  records  of  Consecrations 59 

(3  3.  Notice  to  Diocesan  Councils 59 

$  4.  Treasurer 59 

jj  5.  Expenses  of  General  Council 59 

CANON  II. —  Of  Standing  Committees -.GO 

g  1.  Duties  and  Officers GO 

#  2.  Council  of  Advice  to  Bishop CO 

Canon  III. —  Of  Congregations  and  Parishes 60 

Not  to  unite  with  Church  in  another  Diocese 60 


XVI  TABLE     OF     CONTENTS. 

PAGE 

TITLE  V. — Miscellaneous  Provisions 61 

Canon  I. —  Of  Repealed  Canons 61 

Repeal  of  repeal  not  re-enact 61 

Canon  II. —  Of  Repeal,  Amendment  and  Enactment  of  New  Canons.  61 

Form  of  altering  Canons 61 

Changes  to  be  certified  by  whom 61 


CONSTITUTION 


Article  I.  This  Church,  retaining  the  name  "  Protestant  Epis- 
copal," shall  be  known  as  the  "Protestant  Episcopal  Church 
in  the  Confederate  States  of  America." 

Article  II.  There  shall  be  in  this  Church  a  General  Council. 
There  may  be  also  Provincial  Councils  and  Diocesan  Councils. 

Article  III.  The  General  Council  of  this  Church  shall  meet 
on  the  second  Wednesday  in  November,  in  the  year  of  our  Lord 
one  thousand  eight  hundred  and  sixty-two,  at  Augusta,  Georgia,  and 
on  the  same  day  in  every  third  year  thereafter,  at  such  place  as 
shall  be  determined  by  the  Council. 

In  case  there  shall  be  an  epidemic  disease,  or  other  good  cause  to 
render  it  necessary  to  alter  the  place  appointed  for  such  meeting, 
the  Presiding  Bishop  may  designate  another  convenient  place  for 
the  holding  of  such  Council,  and  special  meetings  may  be  called  at 
other  times,  in  the  manner  hereafter  to  be  determined. 

The  General  Council  shall  consist  of  two  Houses — the  House  of 
Bishops  and  the  House  of  Deputies. 

The  House  of  Bishops  shall  be  composed  of  all  the  Bishops  of 
this  Church  having  jurisdiction  within  the  Confederate  States,  or 
the  Territories  thereof. 

Each  Diocese  shall  be  entitled  to  an  equal  representation,  cleri- 
cal and  lay,  in  the  House  of  Deputies.  Such  representation  shall 
consist  of  not  more  than  three  Clergymen,  and  three  Laymen  com- 
municants in  this  Church,  resident  in  the  Diocese,  and  elected  by 
the  Council  thereof. 

Before  they  shall  proceed  to  business,  a  majority  of  the  Dioceses, 
which  shall  have  adopted  this  Constitution,  shall  be  represented  iu 
the  Council.  The  representations  from  two  Dioceses  shall  be  suf- 
ficient to  adjourn. 

In  all  business  of  the  Council  freedom  of  debate  shall  be  allowed. 

Each  House  shall  have  a  right  to  originate  acts ;  and,  when  any 
act  shall  have  been  passed  in  either  House,  it  shall  be  transmitted 
to  the  other  House  for  its  consideration.     No  act  shall  have  the 


N;unr. 


Councils. 


General 
Council. 


i '<  INSTITUTION. 


Constitution,  operation  of  law,  unless  concurred  in  and  authenticated  by  both 
Y  Houses. 

When  any  proposed  act  shall  have  passed  the  House  of  Deputies, 
and  shall  be  negatived  by  the  House  of  Bishops,  the  House  of 
Bishops  shall,  when  requested  by  the  House  of  Deputies,  signify  to 
it  in  writing  the  reasons  for  non-concurrence,  within  three  days 
after  such  request  shall  have  been  made. 

In  all  questions,  when  required  by  the  clerical  or  lay  representa- 
tion from  any  Diocese,  each  order  shall  have  one  vote,  and  the 
majority  of  suffrages  by  Dioceses  shall  be  conclusive  in  each  order  : 
Provided  such  majority  comprehend  a  majority  of  the  Dioceses 
represented  in  that  order.  The  concurrence  of  both  orders  shall  be 
necessary  in  such  case  to  constitute  a  vote  of  the  House. 

If  any  Diocese  should  omit  or  decline  to  elect  clerical  Deputies 
to  the  General  Council,  or  should  omit  or  decline  to  elect  lay 
Deputies,  or  if  any  of  those  of  either  order  elected  should  fail  to 
attend,  such  Diocese  shall,  nevertheless,  be  considered  as  duly  rep- 
resented by  such  Deputy  or  Deputies  as  may  attend,  whether  lay 
or  clerical.  And  if,  through  the  neglect  of  any  Diocese,  which 
shall  have  adopted  this  Constitution,  no  Deputy  therefrom,  either 
lay  or  clerical,  should  attend  the  Council,  the  Church  in  such 
Diocese  shall,  nevertheless,  be  bound  by  the  acts  of  such  Council. 

Article  IV.  Whenever  any  one  of  the  Confederate  States  shall 
contain  more  than  one  Diocese,  said  State  may,  with  the  consent  of 
all  the  Dioceses  in  said  State,  constitute  an  Ecclesiastical  Province, 
in  which  a  Provincial  Council  may  be  held  at  least  once  in  every 
Provincial  three  years,  which  Provincial  Council  shall  be  made  up  of  all  the 
Bishops  having  jurisdiction  within  the  Province,  and  of  such  rep- 
resentatives, clerical  and  lay,  from  the  Dioceses  within  the  Province, 
as  may  be  determined  upon  by  the  Diocesan  Councils  thereof.  If 
there  be  more  than  one  Bishop  within  the  Province,  the  senior 
Bishop  by  consecration  shall  preside  in  the  Provincial  Council,  and 
when  there  shall  be  three,  or  more  than  three  Bishops,  they  shall 
form  a  separate  House. 

Whenever  such  Council  shall  legislate,  its  acts  shall  be  of  force 
within  all  the  Dioceses  embraced  within  the  Province. 

Article  V.  There  shall  be  held  annually,  in  each  Diocese,  a 
Diocesan  Council,  to  be  composed  of  the  Bishop  or  Bishops  of  the 
Diocese,  and  of  a  lay  and  clerical  representation  from  each  Parish  of 
the  Diocese.     This  Council  shall  legislate  for  only  Diocesan  purposes. 


Province. 


Council. 


Diocesan 
Councils. 


CONSTITUTION .  3 

Article  VI.  The  Bishop  or  Bishops  in  each  Diocese  shall  be   Constitution. 
chosen  by  the  Council  of  that  Diocese,  agreeably  to  such  rules  as  it    v"~"~~y^~-~/ 
may  prescribe ;  and  every  Bishop  of  this  Church  shall  confine  the     Bishops. 
exercise    of   his    Episcopal    Office    to    his    proper    Diocese,   unless 
requested   to   perform   any  act  of  that  Office  by  the  Ecclesiastical 
Authority  of  another  Diocese. 

Article  VII.  A  new  Diocese,  formed  in  any  of  the  Confederate  New  Dioceses. 
States,  or  in  any  Territory  thereof,  not  now  represented,  may,  at 
any  time  hereafter,  be  admitted  to  union  with,  and  representation 
in,  the  General  Council  of  this  Church,  on  acceding  to  this  Consti- 
tution :  Provided  there  were,  at  the  time  of  organizing,  and  are,  at 
the  time  of  making  application  for  admission,  at  least  six  officiating 
Presbyters  within  such  Diocese,  regularly  settled  in  a  Parish  or 
Church. 

A  new  Diocese  may  be  formed  within  the  limits  of  any  existing 
Diocese,  with  the  consent  of  its  Council  and  the  Bishop  or  Bishops 
thereof,  or,  if  there  be  no  Bishop,  of  the  Ecclesiastical  Authority 
thereof  j  and  a  new  Diocese  may  be  formed  within  the  limits  of  two 
or  more  Dioceses,  with  the  like  consent.  But  no  such  new  Diocese 
shall  be  formed,  which  shall  contain  less  than  ten  self-supporting 
Parishes,  or  less  than  ten  Presbyters  who  have  been  for  at  least  one 
year  canonic-ally  resident  within  the  bounds  of  such  new  Diocese, 
regularly  settled  in  a  Parish  or  Congregation,  and  qualified  to  vote 
for  a  Bishop ;  nor  shall  such  new  Diocese  be  formed  if  thereby  any 
existing  Diocese  shall  be  so  reduced  as  to  contain  less  than  fifteen 
self-supporting  Parishes,  or  less  than  fifteen  Presbyters  who  have 
been  residing  therein,  and  settled  and  qualified  as  above-mentioned: 
Provided,  that  no  city  shall  form  more  than  one  Diocese. 

In  case  a  Diocese  shall  be  divided  into  two  or  more  Dioceses,  the 
Diocesan  of  the  Diocese  so  divided  may  elect  the  Diocese  over 
which  he  will  preside,  and  shall  become  the  Diocesan  thereof.  And 
the  Assistant  Bishop,  if  there  be  one,  may  elect  the  Diocese  to 
which  he  will  be  attached ;  and,  if  it  be  not  the  one  elected  by  the 
Bishop,  he  shall  be  the  Diocesan  thereof. 

Article  VIII.  The  mode  of  trying  Bishops  shall  be  provided     Trials 
by  the  General  Council.     The  court  appointed  for  that  purpose  shall 
be  composed  of  Bishops  only. 

In  every  Diocese,  the  mode  of  trying  Presbyters  and  Deacons 
shall  be  prescribed  by  the  Council  of  the  Diocese. 


Constitution. 


Ordinations. 


CONSTITUTION. 

None  but  a  Bishop  shall  pronounce  sentence  of  admonition,  sus- 
pension or  degradation  from  the  ministry,  on  any  Clergyman, 
whether  Bishop,  Presbyter  or  Deacon. 

Article  IX.  No  person  shall  be  admitted  to  Holy  Orders,  until 
he  shall  have  been  examined  by  the  Bishop  and  by  two  Presbyters, 
and  shall  have  exhibited  such  testimonials  and  other  requisites  as 
the  Canons  in  that  case  provided  may  direct. 

Nor  shall  any  person  be  ordained  either  Deacon  or  Priest,  until 
he  shall  have  subscribed  the  following  declaration,  viz  : 

"I  do  believe  the  Holy  Scriptures  of  the  Old  and  New  Testament  to  be  the 
Word  of  God,  and  to  contain  all  things  necessary  to  salvation ;  and  I  do 
solemnly  engage  to  conform  to  the  Doctrines  and  Worship  of  the  Protestant 
Episcopal  Church  in  the  Confederate  States  of  America." 

No  person  ordained  by  a  foreign  Bishop  shall  be  permitted  to 
officiate  as  a  Minister  of  this  Church,  until  he  shall  have  complied 
with  the  Canon  or  Canons  in  such  case  provided,  and  have  also 
subscribed  the  aforesaid  declaration. 

Prayer-Book.  Article  X.  A  Book  of  Common  Prayer,  Administration  of  the 
Sacraments  and  other  Bites  and  Ceremonies  of  the  Church,  Articles 
of  Beligion,  and  a  form  and  manner  of  making,  ordaining  and  con- 
secrating Bishops,  Priests  and  Deacons,  when  established  by  the 
General  Council,  shall  be  used  in  those  Dioceses  which  shall  have 
adopted  this  Constitution.  No  alteration  or  addition  shall  be  made 
in  the  Book  of  Common  Prayer,  or  other  offices  of  the  Church,  or 
the  Articles  of  Religion,  unless  the  same  shall  be  proposed  in  one 
General  Council,  and  by  a  resolution  thereof  made  known  to  the 
Council  of  every  Diocese,  approved  by  a  majority  of  the  Diocesan 
Councils,  and  adopted  at  the  subsequent  General  Council. 
Bishops  for      Article  XL  Bishops  for  foreign  countries  may,  on  due  applica- 

fcries.  "  ti°n  therefrom,  be  consecrated,  with  the  approbation  of  a  majority 

of  the  Bishops  of  this  Church,  signified  in  writing  to  the  Presiding 
Bishop ;  he  thereupon  taking  order  for  the  same,  and  they  being 
satisfied  that  the  person  designated  for  the  office  has  been  duly 
chosen  and  is  properly  qualified. 

The  Order  for  such  Consecration  shall  be  conformed,  as  nearly  as 
may  be,  in  the  judgment  of  the  Bishops,  to  the  one  used  in  this 
Church. 

Bishops,  so  consecrated,  shall  not  be  eligible  to  the  office  of  Dio- 
cesan, or  Assistant  Bishop,  in  any  Diocese  in  the  Confederate  States, 


CONSTITUTION.  :' 

nor  be  entitled  to  a  seat  in  the  House  of  Bishops,  nor  exercise  any   Constitution, 
authority  in  the  said  States. 

Article  XII.  Any  alteration  in  this  Constitution  shall  be  origi- 
nated in  the  General  Council.  When  adopted  in  one  General 
Council  by  a  majority  of  the  House  of  Bishops  and  by  a  majority 
of  the  House  of  Deputies,  said  Deputies  voting  by  Dioceses  and 
orders,  such  alteration  shall  be  made  known  to  the  several  Diocesan 
Councils,  and,  if  agreed  to  by  two-thirds  of  them,  and  ratified  in 
the  ensuing  General  Council,  the  same  shall  be  a  part  of  this  Con- 
stitution. 


DIGEST  OF  THE  CANONS. 


TITLE    I. 
OF  CANDIDATESHIP  AND  ORDINATIONS. 


CANON    I. 

OF    ECCLESIASTICAL   AUTHORITY. 

The  Eccclesiastical  Authority  of  each  Diocese  shall  be  its  Bishop.  Eeclesiasti- 
When  there  is  no  Bishop,  the  Standing  Committee  is  the  Ecclesi-  cal  Authority. 
astical  Authority  for  all  purposes  declared  in  these  Canons. 


CANON   II. 


OF  THE  ADMISSION  OF   PERSONS   AS  CANDIDATES   FOR  DEACONS' 

ORDERS. 

§  1.  Every  person,  who  desires  to  become  a  candidate  for  Holy  Notice  of  in- 
Orders  in  this  Church,  shall,  in  the  first  instance,  give  notice  of  tention. 
that  desire  to  the  Ecclesiastical  Authority  to  whose  jurisdiction  he 
belongs;  in  which  notice  he  shall  declare  whether  he  has  ever 
applied  for  admission  as  a  candidate  in  any  other  Diocese.  The 
Bishop,  or  other  Ecclesiastical  Authority,  may  consent  to  his  apply- 
ing in  some  other  Diocese. 

§  2.  The  notice  above  required  having  been  given  to  the  Bishop, 
and  the  Bishop  having  signified  his  approbation  in  writing,  the 
person  so  applying  shall  send  the  said  certificate  in  a  letter  ad-  certificate, 
dressed  by  him  to  the  President  or  Secretary  of  the  Standing  Com- 
mittee of  the  Diocese  of  the  said  Bishop;  whereupon  the  Standing 
2 


10 


TITLE  I. —  Of  Candidateship  and  Ordinations. 


Admission 
and  Record. 


Canon  II.  Committee  may,  if  they  see  fit,  testify  in  his  hehalf  to  the  Bishop, 
v-~"v~-''  that,  from  personal  knowledge,  or  from  testimonials  laid  before  them, 
they  believe  that  he  is  pious,  sober  and  honest,  attached  to  the 
doctrine,  discipline  and  worship  of  the  Protestant  Episcopal  Church, 
a  communicant  of  the  same,  and  in  their  opinion  possesses  such 
qualifications  as  will  render  him  apt  and  meet  to  exercise  the 
ministry  to  the  glory  of  God,  and  the  edifying  of  the  Church ;  and 
if  the  Standing  Committee  cannot  certify  as  above  from  personal 
knowledge,  the  testimonials  laid  before  them  by  the  applicant  shall 
be  of  the  same  purport,  and  as  full,  as  the  certificate  above  required, 
and  shall  be  signed  by  at  least  one  Presbyter  and  four  respectable 
laymen  of  the  Protestant  Episcopal  Church  in  the  Confederate 
States. 

§  3.  The  applicant  shall  transmit  the  certificate  of  the  Standing- 
Committee  to  the  Bishop,  who  may  thereupon  admit  the  person  as 
a  candidate  for  Holy  Orders,  and  shall  record  the  same  in  a  book 
to  be  kept  by  him  for  that  purpose,  and  shall  notify  the  candidate 
of  such  record.  In  any  Diocese  where  there  is  no  Bishop,  the 
Standing  Committee  may,  on  the  same  conditions,  admit  the  person 
as  a  candidate,  and  shall  make  record  and  notification  in  the  same 
manner. 

§  4.  No  person  who  has  previously  applied  for  admission  as  a 
candidate  in  any  Diocese,  and  has  been  refused  admission,  or, 
having  been  admitted,  has  afterwards  ceased  to  be  a  candidate, 
shall  be  admitted  as  a  candidate  in  any  other  Diocese,  until  he  shall 
have  produced  from  the  Ecclesiastical  Authority  of  the  former 
Diocese  a  certificate  declaring  the  cause  for  which  he  was  refused 
admission,  or  for  which  he  ceased  to  be  a  candidate. 
Application  §  5.  [1.]  When  a  person,  who,  not  having  bad  Episcopal  Ordina- 
of  any  denom-  tion,  has  been  acknowledged  as  an  ordained  minister  or  licentiate  in 
any  denomination  of  Christians,  shall  desire  to  be  ordained  in  this 
Church,  he  shall  give  notice  thereof  to  the  Ecclesiastical  Authority 
of  the  Diocese  in  which  he  resides;  or,  if  he  reside  in  a  State  or 
Territory  in  which  there  is  no  organized  Diccese,  to  the  Missionary 
Bishop  within  whose  jurisdiction  he  resides;  which  notice  shall  be 
accompanied  by  a  written  certificate  from  at  least  two  Presbyters  of 
this  Church,  stating  that,  from  personal  knowledge  of  the  person,  or 
satisfactory  evidence  laid  before  them,  they  believe  that  his  desire 
to  leave  the  denomination  to  which  he  belonged  has  not  arisen  from 
any  circumstance  unfavorable  to  his  moral  or  religious  character,  or 


Refusal  to 
admit. 


ination. 
Notice 


Certificate. 


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on  account   of  which  it  may  be  inexpedient  to  admit  him  to  the     Canon  II. 
exercise  of  the  ministry  in  this  Church;  and   they  may  also  add  V"-^ 

what  they  know  or  believe,  on  good  authority,  of  the  circumstances 
leading  to  the  said  desire. 

[2.]  If  the  Ecclesiastical  Authority  shall  think  proper  to  proceed, 
the  person  applying  to  be  received  as  a  candidate  shall  produce  to 
the  Standing  Committee  a  testimonial  from  at  least  twelve  members 
of  the   denomination  from  which  he  comes,  or  twelve  members  of    Testimonial 
the  Protestant  Episcopal  Church,  or  twelve  persons  in  part  of  the  pe^ons^and 
denomination  from  which  he  comes  and  in  part  Episcopalians,  satis-  two    Presby- 
factory  to  the  Committee,  that  the  applicant  has,  for  three  years  last 
past,  lived  piously,   soberly  and   honestly;  and  also   a   testimonial 
from  at  least  two  Presbyters  of  this  Church,  that  they  believe  him 
to  be  pious,  sober  and  honest,  and  sincerely  attached  to  the  doctrine, 
discipline  and  worship  of  the  Church.     The  Standing  Committee, 
being  satisfied  on  these  points,  may  recommend  him  to  the  Eccle- 
siastical Authority,  to  be  received  as  a  candidate  for  Orders  in  this 
Church. 

§  6.  When  a  person,  not  a  citizen  of  the  Confederate  States,  who       snek  appii_ 

has  been  acknowledged  as  an  ordained  minister  in  any  denomination  cat,ou  hy  one 
ni     •     ■  i  not  a  citizen. 

or  Christians,  shall  apply  to  become  a  candidate  for  Orders  in  this 
Church,  the  Bishop  to  whom  application  is  made  shall  require  of 
him  (in  addition  to  the  above  qualifications)  satisfactory  evidence 
that  he  has  resided  at  least  one  year  in  the  Confederate  States, 
previous  to  his  application. 

When  a  person,  not  a  citizen  of  the  Confederate  States,  who  has     And  to  offiei- 
been  acknowledged  as  an  ordained  minister  in  any  denomination  of  ,ate  in  a foreiSn 

_,.     .     .  ,  language. 

Christians,  shall  apply  for  Orders  in  this  Church  on  the  ground  of 
a  call  to  a  Church  in  which  divine  service  is  celebrated  in  a  foreign 
language,  the  Standing  Committee  of  the  Diocese  to  which  such 
Church  belongs,  may,  on  sufficient  evidence  of  fitness  according  to 
the  Canons,  and  by  a  unanimous  vote  at  a  meeting  duly  convened, 
recommend  him  to  the  Bishop  for  Orders,  and  the  Bishop  may  then 
ordain  him,  and  he  may  be  settled,  and  instituted  into  the  said 
Church,  without  his  producing  a  testimonial  to  his  character  by  a 
clergyman  from  his  personal  knowledge  of  him  for  one  year,  and 
without  his  having  been  a  year  resident  in  this  country,  anything  in 
any  other  Canon  of  this  Church  to  the  contrary  notwithstanding: 
Provided,  that,  in  both  of  the  above  cases,  the  person  applying  pro- 
duce a  certificate,  signed  by  at  least  four  respectable  members  of  this 


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Canon  III.     Church,  that  they  have  satisfactory  reasons  to  believe  the  testimoni- 
v""~"v~~"     als  to  his  religious,  moral   and  literary  qualifications  to  be  entitled 
to  full  credit. 


CANON  III. 

OF  ADMITTED  CANDIDATES  FOR  DEACONS'  ORDERS. 

§  1.  The  Bishop,  or  other  Ecclesiastical  Authority  who  may  have 
Supervision  the  superintendence  of  candidates  for  Deacons'  Orders,  shall  take 
of  Candidates.  care  ^a^  they  pursue  their  studies  diligently  and  under  proper 
direction,  and  that  they  do  not  indulge  in  any  vain  or  trifling  con- 
duct, or  in  any  amusements  most  likely  to  be  abused  to  licentious- 
ness, or  unfavorable  to  that  seriousness,  and  to  those  pious  and 
studious  habits,  which  become  those  who  are  preparing  for  the  Holy 
Ministry. 
Habit  of  de-  §  2.  It  is  also  to  be  made  known  to  every  candidate,  that  the 
Church  expects  of  him,  what  never  can  be  brought  to  the  test  of 
any  outward  standard — an  inward  fear  and  worship  of  Almighty 
God,  a  love  of  religion,  and  a  sensibility  to  its  holy  influences,  a 
habit  of  devout  affection,  and,  in  short,  a  cultivation  of  all  those 
graces  which  are  called  in  Scripture,  the  fruits  of  the  Spirit,  and 
by  which  alone  His  sacred  influences  can  be  manifested. 
Lay  Readers.  §  3.  No  candidate  for  Deacons'  Orders  shall  take  upon  himself 
to  perform  the  service  of  the  Church  but  by  a  license  from  the 
Bishop,  or,  if  there  be  no  Bishop,  from  the  clerical  members  of  the 
Standing  Committee,  of  the  Diocese  in  which  such  candidate  may 
wish  to  perform  the  service.  And  such  candidate  shall  submit  to 
all  the  regulations  which  the  Bishop,  or  said  clerical  members,  may 
Restrictions,  prescribe.  He  shall  not  use  the  absolution  or  benediction ;  he  shall 
not  assume  the  dress  appropriate  to  clergymen  ministering  in  the 
congregation;  he  shall  conform  to  the  directions  of  the  Bishop,  or 
said  clerical  members,  as  to  the  sermons  or  homilies  to  be  read;  nor 
shall  any  such  Lay  Reader  deliver  sermons  of  his  own  composition, 
but,  with  the  permission  of  the  Bishop  of  the  Diocese  in  which  he 
is  a  candidate,  may  make  addresses  or  exhortations  to  such  congre- 
gations as  may  be  formed  outside  of  established  parishes. 

§  4.  A  candidate  for  Deacons'  Orders  may,  on  letters  dimissory 


TITLE  I. —  Of  Candidateship  and  Ordinations.  13 

from  the  Bishop  or  Standing  Committee  of  the  Diocese  to  which  he     Canon  III. 

belongs,  be  transferred  to  the  jurisdiction  of  any  Bishop  in  this  Y 

Church;  and  if  there  be  a  Bishop  of  the  Diocese  where  the  candi-  other  Dioceses. 

date   resides,   he   shall   apply    to   no    other  Bishop   for  ordination 

without  the  permission  of  the  former. 

&  5.  No  candidate  shall  change  his  canonical  residence  but  for  „  Cause  of 
_  .       .  .         Transfer, 

causes  sufficient  in  the  judgment  of  the  Ecclesiastical  Authority; 

nor  shall  any  candidate  be  dismissed  from  the  Diocese  in  which  he 
was  admitted,  or  to  which  he  has  been  duly  transferred,  for  the  con- 
venience of  attending  any  theological  or  other  seminary. 


CANON  IV. 

GENERAL    PROVISIONS    AND    REQUISITES    FOR    ORDINATION. 

§  1.  No  Bishop  shall  ordain  any  candidate  until  he  has  enquired  Previous  ap- 
of  him  whether  he  has  ever,  directly  or  indirectly,  applied  for  Holy 
Orders  in  any  other  Diocese;  and,  if  the  Bishop  has  reason  to 
believe  that  the  candidate  has  been  refused  Holy  Orders  in  any 
other  Diocese,  he  shall  write  to  the  Ecclesiastical  Authority  of  such 
Diocese  to  know  whether  any  just  cause  exists  why  the  candidate 
should  not  be  ordained.  When  any  Bishop  rejects  an  application  Notice  of  re- 
fer Holy  Orders,  he  shall  immediately  give  notice  to  the  Ecclesi- 
astical Authority  of  every  Diocese. 

§  2.  Deacons'  Orders  shall  not  be  conferred  on  any  person  until     Age  for  Or- 

he  shall  be  twenty-one  years  old,  nor  Priests'  Orders  until  he  shall 

be  twenty- four  years  old. 

§  3.  Every  candidate  for  Holy  Orders  who  may  be  recommended     Candidates 
1  .  .  .  -i-i-j'  fr°m   vacant 

by  the  Standing  Committee  of  any  Diocese  destitute  of  a  Bishop,  if  Dioceses. 

he  have  resided  for  the  greater  part  of  three  years  last  past  within 

the  Diocese  of  a  Bishop,  shall  apply  to  such  Bishop  for  ordination. 

And  such  candidate  shall  produce  the  usual  testimonials,  as  well 

from  the  Committee  of  the  Diocese  in  which  he  has  resided,  as 

from  the  Committee  of  the  Diocese  for  which  he  is  to  be  ordained. 

§  4.  No  Bishop  of  this  Church  shall  ordain  any  person  to  officiate        Ordination 

as  a  Priest  in  any  Congregation  or  Church  not  under  Episcopal  super-  yond  the  Con~ 

vision,  and  situated  beyond  the  jurisdiction  of  these  Confederate  federate  States 

States,  until  he  shall  have  received  from  his  Standing  Committee 


14  TITLE  I. —  Of  Candid  ateslrip  and  Ordinations. 

Canon  IV.  the  usual  testimony,  founded  upon  sufficient  evidence  of  the  sound- 
v^""'  ness  in  the  faith,  and  of  the  pious  and  moral  character  of  the 
applicant,  nor  until  he  has  been  examined  on  the  studies  prescribed 
by  the  Canons  of  this  Church;  and  should  any  clergyman,  so  or- 
dained, wish  thereafter  to  settle  in  any  congregation  of  this  Church, 
he  must  obtain  a  special  license  therefor  from  the  Bishop,  and 
officiate  as  a  probationer  for  at  least  one  year. 

Times  of  Or-  §5.  Agreeably  to  the  practice  of  the  Primitive  Church,  the 
stated  times  of  ordination  shall  be  on  the  Sundays  following  the 
Ember  weeks.  Special  ordinations  may  be  held  at  such  other  times 
as  the  Bishop  shall  appoint. 


CANON  Y. 


EXAMINATIONS  AND  TESTIMONIALS   FOR   DEACONS'  ORDERS  AND 
ORDINATION. 

Examination.      §  1.  Every  person  hereafter  to  be  ordained  Deacon  in  this  Church, 
shall  be  examined  by   the  Bishop  and   two  Presbyters,  on   Moral 
Philosophy  and  Rhetoric,  the  Holy  Scriptures   and  the   Book  of 
Common  Prayer,  and  they  shall  enquire  into  his  fitness  for  the  min- 
istrations declared  in  the  Ordinal  to  appertain  to  the  office  of  a 
Deacon,  and  be  satisfied  thereof. 
Period  of      §  2.  No  person  shall  be  ordained  Deacon  in  this  Church  until  he 
and"  Testimn?  sna^  nave  remained  a  candidate  for  Holy  Orders  at  least  one  year, 
nials        from  and    until  he    shall  exhibit   to  the    Bishop  testimonials  from    the 

Standing  Com-  a        3.         ~  .  _     ,       _.  „  .  . 

mittee.  (Standing  Committee  ol  the  Diocese  for  which  he  is  to  be  ordained, 

which  shall  be  signed  by  a  majority  of  all  the  Committee,  the 
Committee  being  duly  convened,  and  which  shall  be  in  the  follow- 
ing words : 

"We,  whose  names  are  hereunder  written,  testify  that  A.  B.  hath  laid  hefore 
us  satisfactory  testimonials,  that  for  the  space  of  three  years  last  past,  he 
hath  lived  piously,  soberly  and  honestly,  and  hath  not  written,  taught  or  held 
anything  contrary  to  the  doctrine  or  discipline  of  the  Protestant  Episcopal 
Church  in  the  Confederate  States;  and,  moreover,  we  think  him  a  person 
worthy  to  be  admitted  to  the  sacred  Order  of  Deacons.     In  witness  whereof, 

we  have  hereunto  set  our  hands,  this day  of ,  in  the  year 

of  our  Lord ." 


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§  3.  But  before  a  Standing  Committee  shall  proceed  to  recom-     Canon  V. 
mend  any  candidate,  as  aforesaid,  to  the  Bishop,  such  candidate     ^"""v"~-"/ 
shall  produce  from  the  Minister  and  Vestry  of  the  parish  where  he  t0      standing- 
resides,  or  from   the  Vestry  alone,  if  the  parish  be  vacant;  or,  if  Committee, 
there  be  no  Vestry,  from  at  least  six   respectable  persons   of  the 
Protestant  Episcopal  Church  in  the  Confederate  States,  testimonials 
of  his  piety,   good  morals  and  orderly  conduct,  in  the   following 
words : 

"We,  whose  names  are  hereunder  written,  do  testify  from  evidence  satis- 
factory to  us,  that  A.  B.,  for  the  space  of  three  years  last  past,  hath  lived 
piously,  soberly  and  honestly,  and  hath  not,  so  far  as  we  know  or  believe, 
written,  taught  or  held  anything  contrary  to  the  doctrine  or  discipline  of  the 
Protestant  Episcopal  Church  in  the  Confederate  States;  and,  moreover,  we 
think  him  a  person  worthy  to  be  admitted  to  the  sacred  Order  of  Deacons. 

In   witness  whereof,  we  have  hereunto  set  our   hands,   this  day  of 

,  in  the  year  of  our  Lord ." 

He   shall  also  lay  before  the   Standing  Committee   testimonials     Testimonials 
signed  by  at  least  one  respectable  Presbyter  of  the  Protestant  Epis-  f'"m    a   Pres" 
copal  Church  in  the  Confederate  States,  which  testimonials  shall  be 
in  the  following  word^  : 

"I  do  certify  that  A.  B.,  for  the  space  of  three  years  last  past,  hath  lived 
piously,  soberly  and  honestly,  and  hath  not,  so  far  as  I  know  or  believe,  writ- 
ten,taught  or  held  anything  contrary  to  the  doctrine  or  discipline  of  the  Prot- 
estant Episcopal  Church  in  the  Confederate  States ;  and,  moreover,  I  think 
him  a  person  worthy  to  be  admitted  to  the  sacred  Order  of  Deacons.  This 
testimonial  is  founded  on  my  personal  knowledge  of  the  said  A.  B.  for  one 
year  last  past,  and  for  the  residue  of  the  said  time  upon  evidence  that  is  satis- 
factory to  me.     In  witness  whereof,  I  have  hereunto  set  my  hand,  this 

day  of ,  in  the  year  of  our  Lord ." 

§  4.  But  in  case  a  candidate,  from  some  peculiar  circumstances        Substitute 

not  affecting  his  pious  or  moral  character,  shall  be  unable  to  procure   es  imoma  s* 

testimonials  from  the  Minister  and  Vestry  of  the  parish  wherein  he 

resides,  the   Standing  Committee  may  accept  testimonials  of  the 

purport  above  stated,  from  at  least  twelve   respectable  members  of 

the   Protestant  Episcopal   Church  in   the   Confederate   States,  and 

from  at  least  one  respectable   Presbyter  of  the  said  Church,  who 

has  been  personally  acquainted  with  the  candidate  for  at  least  one 

year. 

§  5.  Candidates  who,  not  having  Episcopal  ordination,  have  been  „     Candidates 
°  '  ....  .        .        from  other  de- 

acknowledged  as  ordained  or  licensed  ministers  in  any  denomination  nominations. 


16 


TITLE  I. —  Of  Candidateship  and  Ordinations. 


Canon  V. 


Candidates 
from  other 
countries. 


of  Christians,  may,  at  the  expiration  of  not  less  than  six  months 
from  their  admission  as  candidates,  be  ordained  Deacons,  on  their 
passing  the  same  examinations  as  other  candidates  for  Deacons' 
Orders,  and,  in  the  examinations,  special  regard  shall  be  had  to 
those  points  in  which  tbe  denomination  whence  they  came  differs 
from  this  Church,  with  a  view  of  testing  their  information  and 
soundness  in  the  same;  and,  also,  of  ascertaining  that  they  are 
adequately  acquainted  with  the  Liturgy  and  Offices  of  this  Church  : 
Provided,  that  in  their  case  the  testimonials  shall  be  required  to 
cover  only  the  time  since  their  admission  as  candidates  for  Holy 
Orders. 

§  6.  When  any  person,  not  a  citizen  of  the  Confederate  States, 
who  has  been  acknowledged  as  an  ordained  or  licensed  minister  in 
any  denomination  of  Christians,  shall  apply  for  Orders  in  this 
Church,  the  Bishop,  to  whom  the  application  is  made,  shall  require 
of  him  (in  addition  to  the  above  qualifications)  satisfactory  evidence 
that  he  has  resided  at  least  one  year  in  the  Confederate  States  pre- 
vious to  his  application. 


CANON    VI. 


Control  of 
Deacons. 


Conditions 
of  officiating. 


OF    DEACONS. 

§  1.  Every  Deacon  shall  be  subject  to  the  regulation  of  the 
Bishop,  or,  if  there  be  no  Bishop,  of  the  clerical  members  of  the 
Standing  Committee  of  the  Diocese  for  which  he  is  ordained,  until 
he  receive  letters  dimissory  to  the  Ecclesiastical  Authority  of  some 
other  Diocese,  and  be  thereupon  received  as  a  Clergyman  of  such 
other  Diocese ;  and  he  shall  officiate  in  such  places  as  the  Bishop, 
or  the  said  clerical  members,  may  direct. 

§  2.  No  Deacon  shall  be  settled  over  a  Parish  or  Congregation ; 
nor  shall  any  Deacon  officiate  in  any  Parish  or  Congregation,  without 
the  express  consent  of  the  Rector  for  the  time  being,  where  there  is 
a  Rector ;  nor  in  any  case  without  the  assent  of  the  Bishop ;  and 
when  officiating  in  the  Parish  or  Congregation  of  a  Rector,  he  shall 
be  entirely  subject  to  the  direction  of  such  Rector  in  all  his  minis- 
trations. 


TITLE   I. —  Of  Candidateshijj  and  Ordination:;.  17 

§  3.  No  Deacon  shall  be  transferred  to   another  Diocese  without     Canon  VI. 
the  written  request  of  the  Bishop,  to  whose  jurisdiction  he  is  to  be    ^■~"v~~"' 

/,         t  Transfer, 

transferred. 


CANON   VII. 

ORDINATION    TO    THE    PRIESTHOOD. 

$  1.  Whenever  a  Deacon  shall  determine  to  proceed  to  Priests'     Deacon  pro- 
Orders,  he  shall  give  to  the  Bishop  written   notice  of  such  inten-  pries^Ordcr." 
tion ;  whereupon  the  Bishop  shall  record  the  notice  in  a  book  to  be 
kept  by  him  for  this  purpose,  and  shall   appoint  and   direct  the 
studies  of  the  Deacon  accordingly. 

§  2.  Every  Deacon  desiring  to  receive  Priests'  Orders  shall  stand    Examinations 
three  different  examinations,  at  such  times  and  places  as  the  Bishop,  (1°*s  ncs  s     r" 
to  whom  he  applies  for  Holy  Orders,  shall  appoint.     The  examina- 
tion shall  take  place  in  the  presence  of  the  Bishop  and  two  or  more 
Presbyters.     The  first  examination  shall  be  on  the  books  of  Scrip-     First. 
ture,  the  candidate  being  required  to  give  an  account  of  the  differ- 
ent books,  to  translate  from  the  original  Greek  and  Hebrew,  and  to 
explain  such  passages  as  may  be  proposed   to   him.     The  second     Second, 
examination  shall  be  on  the  evidences  of  Christianity  and  Syste- 
matic Divinity,  and  the  last  examination  shall  be  on  Church  History,     Last. 
Ecclesiastical  Polity,  the  Book  of  Common  Prayer,  and  the  Consti- 
tution and  Canons  of  the  Church,  and  of  the  Diocese  for  which  he 
is  to  be  ordained.     (He  shall  be  examined  also  as  to  his  knowledge 
of  the  Latin  tongue.)     At  each  of  the  forementioned  examinations 
he  shall  produce  and  read  a  sermon  or  discourse,  composed  by  him- 
self, on  some  passage  of   Scripture,  previously    assigned    to  him, 
which,  together  with  two  other  sermons  or  discourses  on  some  pas- 
sage or  passages  of  Scripture  selected  by  himself,  shall  be  submitted 
to  the  criticisms  of  the  Bishop  and  clergy  present ;  and,  before  his 
ordination,  he  shall  be  required  to  perform  such  exercises  in  read- 
ing, in  the  presence  of  the  Bishop  and  clergy,  as  may  enable  them 
to  give  him  such   advice  and  instructions  as  may  aid  him   in  per- 
forming the  services  of  the  Church,  and  delivering  his  sermons  with 
propriety  and  devotion. 

§  3.  When  a  Deacon,  applying  to  be  admitted  to  Priests'  Orders,  Dispensations 
3 


18  TITLE  I. —  Of  Candidateship  and  Ordinations. 

Canon  VII.    wishes  knowledge  of  the  Latin,  Greek  and  Hebrew  languages,  and 

^  Y-— ^  other  branches  of  learning  not  strictly  ecclesiastical,  to  be  dispensed 
with,  the  Standing  Committee  shall  not  recommend  him  for  Priests' 
Orders  until  he  shall  have  laid  before  them  a  testimonial  signed  by 
at  least  two  Presbyters  of  this  Church,  stating  that,  in  their  opinion, 
he  possesses  extraordinary  strength  of  natural  understanding,  a 
peculiar  aptitude  to  teach,  and  a  large  share  of  prudence  ;  and  the 
Bishop,  with  the  consent  of  the  Standing  Committee,  shall  have 
granted  the  dispensation.  But  in  regard  to  a  knowledge  of  the 
Hebrew  language,  the  Bishop  shall  have  the  sole  power  of  dispen- 
sation. 

Where  there  §4.  In  a  Diocese  where  there  is  no  Bishop,  the  Deacon  shall  be 
examined  by  the  Bishop  to  whom  he  applies  for  Holy  Orders,  and 
by  two  or  more  Presbyters  appointed  for  that  purpose  by  the  said 
Bishop. 

Testimonials  §  5.  No  person  shall  be  ordained  a  Priest  in  this  Church  until  he 
Committe'e  ™S  s^ia^  have  exhibited  to  the  Bishop  testimonials  from  the  Standing 
Committee  of  the  Diocese  for  which  he  is  to  be  ordained,  which 
testimonials  shall  be  signed  with  the  names  of  a  majority  of  all 
the  Committee,  the  Committee  being  duly  convened,  and  shall  be 
in  the  following  words  : 

"  We,  whose  names  are  under-written,  members  of  the  Standing  Committee 

of  the  Dioeese  of  — . ,  do  testify  that  the  Rev'd  A.  B.,  Deacon, 

hath  laid  before  us  satisfactory  testimonials,  that  for  the  space  of  three  years 
last  past,  he  hath  lived  piously,  soberly  and  honestly,  and  hath  not  written, 
taught  or  held  anything  contrary  to  the  doctrine  or  discipline  of  the  Protest- 
ant Episcopal  Church  in  the  Confederate  States  ;  and,  moreover,  we  think 
him  a  person  worthy  to  be  admitted  to  the  sacred  Order  of  Priests.  In  wit- 
ness whereof,   we    have  hereunto    set   our  hands  this day  of 

,  in  the  year  of  our  Lord ." 

Testimonials      But  before  the  Standing  Committee  shall  proceed  to  recommend 

to      Standing  any  Deacorj;  ag  aforesaid,  to  the  Bishop,  such  Deacon  shall  produce 

from  the  Minister  and  Vestry  of  the  Parish  where  he  resides,  or,  if 

the  Parish   be  vacant,  from  the  Vestry  alone,  testimonials  of  his 

piety,  good  morals  and  orderly  conduct,  in  the  following  words : 

"We,  whose  names  are  hereunder  written,  do  testify  that  the  Rev'd  A.  B., 
Deacon,  hath,  for  the  space  of  three  years  last  past,  lived  piously,  soberly,  and 
honestly,  and  hath  not,  so  far  as  we  know  or  believe,  written,  taught  or  held 
anything  contrary  to  the  doctrine  or  discipline  of  the  Protestant  Episcopal 
Church  in  the  Confederate  States ;  and,  moreover,  we  think  him  a  person 


TITLE  I. —  Of  Candidateship  and  Ordinations.  19 

worthy  to  be  admitted  to  the  sacred  Order  of  Priests.     In  witness  whereof,  we     Canon  VII. 

have  hereunto  set  our  hands  this day  of ,  in  the     *■  —    Y    —  ' 

year  of  our  Lord ." 

He  shall  also  lay  before  the  Standing  Committee  testimonials  Testimonials 
signed  by  at  least  one  respectable  Presbyter  of  the  Protestant  Epis-  [™m  a  Pres" 
copal  Church  in  the  Confederate  States,  in  the  following  form : 

"  I  do  certify,  that  the  Rev'd  A.  B.,  Deacon,  has,  for  the  space  of  three 
years  last  past,  lived  piously,  soberly  and  honestly,  and  lias  not,  so  far  as  I 
know  or  believe,  written,  taught  or  held  anything  contrary  to  the  doctrine  or 
discipline  of  the  Protestant  Episcopal  Church  in  the  Confederate  States;  and, 
moreover,  I  think  him  a  person  worthy  to  be  admitted  to  the  sacred  Order  of 
Priests.  This  testimonial  is  founded  on  my  personal  knowledge  of  the  said 
Rev'd  A.  B.,  Deacon,  for  one  year  last  past,  and  for  the  residue  of  the  said 
time  upon  evidence  that  is  satisfactory  to  me.     In  witness  whereof,  I  have 

hereunto  set  my  hand  this day  of ,  in  the  year  of 

our  Lord ." 

§  C>.  But  in  case  an  applicant  for  Priests'  Orders  shall,  from  Substitute 
peculiar  circumstances,  not  affecting  his  pious  or  moral  character,  be  testimonials, 
unable  to  procure  testimonials  from  the  Minister  and  Vestry  of  the 
Parish  where  he  resides,  or  in  case  of  there  being  no  Vestry,  the 
Standing  Committee  may  accept  testimonials  of  the  purport  above 
stated  from  at  least  twelve  respectable  members  of  the  Protestant 
Episcopal  Church  of  the  Confederate  States,  and  from  at  least  one 
respectable  Presbyter  of  the  said  Church,  who  has  been  personally 
acquainted  with  the  candidate  for  at  least  one  year. 


CANON  VIII. 


OF   THE   ADMISSION   OF   MINISTERS   ORDAINED   BY  BISHOPS  NOT 
IN    COMMUNION    WITH    THIS    CHURCH. 

When  a  Deacon  or  Priest,  ordained  by  a  Bishop  not  in  commu-    Ministers  or- 
nion  with  this  Church,  shall  apply  to  a  Bishop  for  admission  into  the  g^dg       ^ 
same  as  a  minister  thereof,  he  shall  produce  a  written  certificate  in  communion 
from  at  least  two  Presbyters  of  this  Church,  stating  that,  from  per-  church, 
sonal  knowledge  of  him,  or  satisfactory  evidence  laid   before  them, 
they  believe  that  his  desire  to  leave  the  communion  to  which  he 
has  belonged  has  not  arisen  from  any  circumstance  unfavorable  to 


20  TITLE  I. —  Of  Candida teship  and  Ordination*. 

Canon  VIII.  his  moral  or  religious  character,  or  on  account  of  which  it  may  be 
^"~v~— "^  inexpedient  to  admit  him  to  the  exercise  of  the  ministry  in  this 
Church ;  and  he  shall  also,  not  less  than  six  months  after  his  appli- 
cation, in  the  presence  of  the  Bishop  and  two  or  more  Presbyters, 
subscribe  the  declaration  contained  in  Article  IX.  of  the  Constitu- 
tion ;  which  being  done,  the  Bishop,  being  satisfied  of  his  theologi- 
cal acquirements,  may  receive  him  as  such  minister. 


CANON  IX. 


OF   MINISTERS   ORDAINED   IN   FOREIGN    COUNTRIES   BY   BISHOPS 
IN    COMMUNION    WITH    THIS    CHURCH. 

Ministers  or-      &  1.  A  clergyman  coming  from  a  foreign  country,  and  professing 
dained  in  for-        \  .  ,.,„,„•„,  „  ,  „      . 

eign  countries  to  have  been  ordained  out  of  the  Confederate  States  by  a  foreign 
by       Bishops  Bis]j0p  [n  communion  with  this  Church,  or  by  a  Bishop  consecrated 

in  communion  r  J  r 

with  this  for  a  foreign  country  by  Bishops  of  this  Church  under  Article  XI. 

of  the  Constitution,  or  by  a  Missionary  Bishop  elected  to  exercise 
Episcopal  functions  in  any  place  or  places  out  of  the  Confederate 
States,  shall,  before  he  be  permitted  to  officiate  in  any  Parish  or 
Certificate.  Congregation,  exhibit  to  the  Minister,  or,  if  there  be  no  Minister,  to 
the  Vestry  thereof,  a  certificate  signed  by  the  Bishop  of  the  Diocese, 
or,  if  there  be  no  Bishop,  by  the  Standing  Committee  duly  con- 
vened, that  his  letters  of  Holy  Orders  are  authentic,  and  given  by 
some  Bishop  in  communion  with  this  Church,  and  whose  authority 
is  acknowledged  by  this  Church ;  and,  also,  that  he  has  exhibited 
to  the  Bishop  or  Standing  Committee  satisfactory  evidence  of  his 
pious  and  moral  character,  and  of  his  theological  acquirements; 
and,  in  any  case,  before  he  shall  be  permitted  to  settle  in  any 
Church  or  Parish,  or  be  received  into  union  with  any  Diocese  of 
this  Church  as  a  minister  thereof,  he  shall  produce  to  the  Ecclesi- 
astical Authority  thereof,  letters  dimissory  under  the  hand  and  seal 
of  the  Bishop  with  whose  Diocese  he  has  been  last  connected; 
which  letters  shall  be,  in  substance,  those  provided  for  in  Section 
7  of  Canon  II.  of  Title  II.,  and  shall  be  delivered  within  six 
months  from  the  date  thereof;  and  when  such  clergyman  shall  have 
been  so  received,  he  shall  be  considered  as  having  passed  entirely 

Letters    Di-  „  ......  „    ,      ,-,.  ,         „  ,  ,      ,  ,.     . 

missory.  from  the  jurisdiction  of  the  Bishop  from  whom  the  letters  dimissory 


TITLE  I. —  Of  Candidateship  and  Ordinations.  21 

were  brought,  to  the  full  jurisdiction  of  the  Bishop  or  other  Eccle-  Canon  IX. 
siastical  Authority  by  whom  they  shall  have  been  accepted,  and  v"-~"v~~"~' 
become  thereby  subject  to  all  the  canonical  provisions  of  this 
Church  :  Provided,  that  no  such  clergyman  shall  be  so  received  into 
union  with  any  Diocese  until  he  shall  have  subscribed,  in  the  pres- 
ence of  the  Bishop  of  the  Diocese  in  which  he  applies  for  recep- 
tion, and  of  two  or  more  Presbyters,  the  declaration  contained  in 
Article  IX.  of  the  Constitution  ;  which  being  done,  said  Bishop  or 
Standing  Committee,  being  satisfied  of  his  theological  acquirements, 
may  receive  him  into  union  with  this  Church  as  a  minister  of  the 
same :  Provided,  also,  that  such  minister  shall  not  be  entitled  to 
settle  in  any  Parish  or  Church,  as  canonically  in  charge  of  the 
same,  until  he  shall,  subsequently  to  the  acceptance  of  his  letters 
dimissory,  have  resided  one  year  in  the  Confederate  States. 

§  2.  And  if  such  foreign  clergyman  be  a  Deacon,  he  shall  obtain 
in  this  country  the  requisite  testimonials  of  character,  before  he  be 
ordained  a  Priest. 


TITLE  II. 

GENERAL     REGULATIONS     OF     MINISTERS 
AND    THEIR    DUTIES. 


CANON  I. 

THE    CONSENT    NECESSARY    FOR    OFFICIATING. 

In  case  of  §  1.  No  Minister  shall  officiate,  transiently  or  otherwise,  in  a  Con- 
gregation or  vacant  Parish,  or  in  one  the  Rector  or  Minister  of 
which  is  sick  or  absent,  unless  the  Wardens,  Vestry  or  Trustees  of 
the  Congregation  are  satisfied  that  he  is  at  the  time  an  Episcopally 
ordained  Minister  in  good  and  regular  standing.  When  from 
another  Diocese,  letters  commendatory  from  the  Ecclesiastical 
Authority  thereof  may  be  required. 
Of  Lay-Read-  §  2.  Any  Bishop  may,  at  his  discretion,  license  any  suitable 
person  to  act  as  a  lay-reader. 


CANON  II. 

GENERAL    REGULATIONS    OF    MINISTERS. 

Election  of      §  1.  [1.]  It  is  hereby  required  that,  on  the  election  of  a  Minister 
Ministers.         jnto  any  (^h^gh  or  Parish,  the  Vestry  shall  deliver,  or  cause  to  be 
delivered,  to  the  Ecclesiastical  Authority  of  the  Diocese,  notice  of 
the  same,  in  the  following  form  : 

Certificate  of      "  We,  the  Church  Wardens,  (or,  in  case  of  an  Assistant  Minister,  we,  the 

election.  Rector  and  Church  Wardens)  do  certify  to  the  Rt.  Rev'd,  (naming  Hie  Bishop) 

or   to   the   Rev'd,  (naming  the  President   of   the  Standing    Committee)   that 

(naming  the  person)  has  been  duly  chosen  Rector  (or  assistant  Minister,  as  the 

case  may  be,)  of  (naming  the  Parish  or  Clwrch.''') 

Which  certificate  shall  be  signed  with  the  names  of  those  who 
certify. 


TITLE  II. —  General  Regulations  of  Ministers.  23 

[2.]  If  the  Ecclesiastical  Authority  be  satisfied  that  the  person     Canon  II. 

so  chosen   is  a  qualified   Minister  of  this  Church,  the  said  Ecclesi-  * 

.  To  be   re- 

astical  Authority  shall  transmit  the  said  certificate  to  the  Secretary  corded. 

of  the  Convention,  who  shall  record  it  in  a  book  to  be  kept  by  him 

for  that  purpose. 

[3.]  And  if  the  Minister  be  a  Presbyter,  the  Ecclesiastical  institution. 
Authority  may,  at  the  instance  of  the  Vestry,  proceed  to  have  him 
instituted  according  to  the  Office  established  by  this  Church,  if  that 
Office  be  used  in  the  Diocese.  This  provision,  concerning  the  use 
of  the  Office  of  Institution,  is  not  to  be  considered  as  applying  to 
any  Congregation  destitute  of  a  house  of  worship. 

§  2.  No  Minister,  removing  from  one  Diocese  or  Missionary  Dis-  Certificate  to 
trict  to  another,  shall  officiate  as  the  Rector,  Stated  Minister,  or  moving  fro^ 
Assistant  Minister  of  any  Parish  or  Congregation  of  the  Diocese  or  one  Diocese  to 

another. 

District  to  which  he  removes,  until  he  shall  have  obtained  from  the 
Ecclesiastical  Authority  a  certificate  in  the  words  following  : 

"  I  hereby  certify  that  the  Rev.  A.  B.  has  been  canonically  transferred  to 
my  jurisdiction,  and  is  a  Minister  in  regular  standing." 

§  3.  The  Alms  and  Contributions  at  the   administration  of  the    Almsatcom- 
Holy   Communion   shall   be    deposited   with  the    Minister  of   the 
Parish,  or  with  such  Church  officer  as  shall  be  appointed  by  him,  to 
be  applied  by  the   Minister,  or  under  his  superintendence,  to  such 
pious  and  charitable  uses  as  shall  by  him  be  thought  fit. 

§  4.  [1.]  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  Ministers  to  prepare  young  per-  Duty  of  min- 
sons  and  others  for  the  holy  ordinance  of  Confirmation.  And  on  confirmations. 
notice  being  received  from  the  Bishop  of  his  intention  to  visit  any 
Church  for  the  purpose  of  administering  that  rite,  which  notice 
shall  be  at  least  one  month  before  the  intended  visitation,  the  Minis- 
ter shall  give  immediate  notice  to  his  parishioners,  individually,  as 
opportunity  may  offer,  and  also  to  the  Congregation  on  the  first 
occasion  of  public  worship  after  the  receipt  of  said  notice.  And 
he  shall  be  ready  to  present  for  Confirmation  such  persons  as  he 
shall  think  properly  qualified,  and  shall  deliver  to  the  Bishop  a  list 
of  the  names  of  those  confirmed. 

[2.]  And  at  every  visitation  the  Minister  and  Church  Wardens,        About  the 
or    Vestry,  shall    lay  before    the    Bishop,  if  required,   the    Parish  congregation. 
records,  and  give  information  to  him  of  the  state  of  the  Congrega- 
tion, under  such  heads  as  shall  have  been  committed  to  them  in  the 
notice  given  as  aforesaid. 


24  TITLE  II. —  General  Regulations  of  Ministers. 

Canon  TI.  [3.]  And  further,  the  Ministers  and   Church  Wardens  of  such 

V"~"~v~~"^     Congregations  as  cannot  be  conveniently  visited  in  any  year,  shall 

cesan  Council  DriQg  or  send  to  the  Bishop,  at  the  stated  meeting  of  the  Council 

of    the  Diocese,  information    of    the   state  of    the   Congregation, 

under  such  heads  as  shall  have  been  committed  to  them  at  least  one 

month  before  the  meeting  of  the  Council. 

Parish  Regis-      §  5.  [1.]  Every  Minister  of  this  Church  shall  keep  a  register  of 

ten  baptisms,    confirmations,    communicants,    marriages    and    funerals, 

•within  his  cure,  agreeably  to  such  rules  as  may  be  provided  by  the 

Council  of  the  Diocese  where  his  cure  lies;  and  if  none  such  be 

provided,  then  in  such  manner  as  in  his  discretion  he  sball  think 

best  suited  to  the  uses  of  such  a  register. 

To  prove      [2.]  The  intention  of  the  Register  of  Baptisms  is  hereby  declared 

Church-mem-  j.Q  j^  ag  for  0j]ier  g00d   uses,  so  especially  for  the  proving  of  the 

right  of   the  Church-membership  of   those  who    may  have  been 

admitted  into  this  Church  by  the  holy  ordinance  of  Baptism. 

List  of  fami-      [3.]  Every  Minister  of  this  Church  shall  make  out  and  continue, 

lies-  as  far  as  practicable,  a  list  of  all  families  and  adult  persons  within  his 

cure,  which,  with  all  other  Parish  records  in  his  keeping,  shall,  in 

case  of  his  removal,  be  entrusted  to  the  Wardens  of  the  Church,  to 

remain  for  the  use  of  his  successor,  to  be  continued  by  him  and  by 

every  future  Minister  in  the  same  Parish. 

Officiating  of      §6.   [1.]  No  Minister  belonging  to  this  Church  shall  officiate, 

Ministers     in  g^jjgj.  jjy  prgaching,  reading  prayers  or  otherwise,  in  the  Parish,  or 

others.  within  the  parochial  cure  of  another  clergyman,  without  the  consent 

of  the  Minister  of  the  Parish  or  cure,  or,  in  his  absence,  of  the 

Church  Wardens  and  Vestrymen,  or  Trustees  of  the  Congregation, 

or  a  majority  of  them. 

Parish  boun-      [2.]  All  regulations  respecting  Parish  boundaries  shall  be  made 

daries.  by  Diocesan  Councils. 

Neglect  of  [3.]  If  any  Minister  of  this  Church,  from  inability  or  other 
cause,  fail  to  perform  the  regular  services  in  his  Congregation,  and 
refuse,  without  good  cause,  his  consent  to  any  other  Minister  of  this 
Church  to  officiate  within  his  cure,  the  Church  Wardens,  Vestry- 
men or  Trustees  of  such  Congregation  shall,  on  proof  of  such 
failure  or  refusal  before  the  Standing  Committee,  or  before  such 
persons  as  may  be  deputed  by  them,  or  before  such  persons  as  may 
be,  by  the  regulations  of  this  Church  in  any  Diocese,  vested  with 
the  power  of  hearing  and  deciding  on  complaints  against  Clergy- 
men, have  power,  with  the  written  consent  of  the  before-mentioned 


Ministers. 


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authority,  to  open  the  doors  of  their  Church  to  any  regular  Minister      Canon  II. 
of  this  Church.  ^"-—y-"— ' 

§7.  [1.]  A  Minister  of  this  Church  removing  within  the  juris-  Clerical  resi- 
diction  of  any  Bishop  or  other  Ecclesiastical  Authority,  shall,  in  dence- 
order  to  gain  canonical  residence  within  the  same,  present  to  said 
Ecclesiastical  Authority  a  testimonial  from  the  Ecclesiastical  Au- 
thority of  the  Diocese  or  Missionary  District  in  which  he  last 
resided,  which  testimonial  shall  set  forth  his  true  standing  and 
character.     The  testimonial  may  be  in  the  following  words  : 

"I  hereby  certify  that  A.  B.,  who  has  signified  to  me  his  desire  to  be  trans-      Letters     di- 
ferred  to  the  Ecclesiastical  Authority  of ,  is  a  Presbyter  (or  Deacon)  missory. 

of ,  in   regular  standing,  and   lias  not,  so  far  as    I   know  or  believe, 

been  justly  liable  to  evil  report,  for  error  in  religion  or  viciousness  of  life,  for 
three  years  last  past." 


All  such  testimonials  shall  be  called  Letters  Dimissory.  When  to 

affect    canon 
cal  residence. 


[2.]  No  such  letters  shall  affect  a  Minister's  canonical  residence,  af 


until,  after  having  been  presented  according  to  address,  they  shall  have 
been  accepted,  and  notification  of  such  acceptance  given  to  the  au- 
thority whence  it  proceeded.  The  residence  of  the  Minister  so  trans- 
ferred shall  date  from  the  acceptance  of  his  letters  dimissory.  If  not 
presented  within  three  months  after  date,  they  may  be  considered 
as  void  by  the  authority  whence  they  proceeded  ;  and  shall  be  so  When  void, 
considered,  unless  they  be  presented  within  six  months. 

[3.]  If  a  Minister,  removing  into  another  Diocese,  who  has  been     Reception, 
called  to  take  charge  of  a  Parish   or  Congregation,  shall  present  a 
testimonial  in  the  form  aforesaid,  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  Eccle- 
siastical  Authority   of  the   Diocese   to  which   he  has   removed,  to     When  to  be 
accept  it,  unless   the   Bishop  or  Standing  Committee  should  have  gran  e 
heard  rumors,  which  he  or  they  believe  to  be  well  founded,  against 
the  character  of  the  Minister  concerned,  and   which  would  form  a 
proper  ground  of  canonical  inquiry  and  presentment;  in  which  case 
the   Ecclesiastical   Authority  shall    communicate  the  same  to   the 
Ecclesiastical    Authority  of  the   Diocese  to  whose  jurisdiction  the 
said  Minister  belongs;  and,  in  such  case,  it  shall  not  be  the  duty  of  When  refused, 
the   Ecclesiastical  Authority  to  accept  the   testimonial  unless,  and 
until,  the  Minister  shall  be  exculpated  from  the  said  charges. 

[4.]  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  all  Ministers,  except  chaplains  in  the        Letters  di- 
army  and  navy,  and  professors  and  officers  in  institutions  under  the  not'required611 
direction    of   the   General    Council,  .to  obtain  and    present   letters 
4 


26  TITLE  II. —  General  Regulations  of  Ministers. 

Canon  II.  diniissory  as  above  described,  whenever  they  remove  from  one  Dio- 
v"- ~~v~" — '  cese  or  Missionary  District  to  any  other  Diocese  or  Missionary  Dis- 
trict, whether  Domestic  or  Foreign,  and  remain  there  for  the  space 
of  six  months.  If,  at  the  end  of  that  time,  any  Minister,  so 
removing,  shall  not  have  obtained  and  presented  such  letters,  the 
Bishop  of  the  Diocese  from  which  he  has  removed  shall  have  the 
right  to  transfer  him  by  letters  dimissory  into  the  Diocese  of  the 
Bishop  into  whose  jurisdiction  he  has  removed. 

§  8.  A  minister  is  settled  for  all  purposes  here  or  elsewhere  men- 
tioned in  these  Canons,  who  has  been  engaged  permanently  by  any 
Parish,  according  to  the  rules  of  said  Diocese,  for  any  term  not  less 
than  one  year. 


CANON     III 

OF    BISHOPS. 


Election  of      §  1-  To  entitle  a  Diocese  to  the  choice  of  a  Bishop  by  the  Coun- 

Bishop.  cij  thereof,  there  must  be,  at  the  time  of  such  choice,  and  have 

been  during  the  year  previous,  at  least  six  officiating   Presbyters 

therein,  regularly  settled   in   a  Parish  or  Church,  and  qualified  to 

vote   for  a   Bishop,  and  six   or  more   Parishes  represented  in   the 

Council  electing. 

Process  for      §  2.  [1.]  Whenever  the  Church  in  any  Diocese  shall  be  desirous 

consecration.    of  the  COr>secratiori  of  a  Bishop  elect,  the  Standing  Committee  of 

the  Church  in  such  Diocese  shall,  by  their  President,  or  by  some 

person  or  persons  specially  appointed,  communicate  the  desire  to  the 

Standing   Committees   of  the  Churches  in  the   different  Dioceses, 

together  with  evidence  of  his  election,  and  a  certified  copy  of  the 

following  testimonial : 

Testimony  Testimon;/  from  the  Members  of  the   Council  in  the  Diocese  from  tohenct  flic 

from  Diocesan  Person   is   recommended  for    Consecration. 

Council. 

"We,  whose  names  are  underwritten,  fully  sensible  how  important  it  is  that 
the  sacred  office  of  a  Bishop  should  not  be  unworthily  conferred,  and  firmly 
persuaded  that  it  is  our  duty  to  bear  testimony  on  this  solemn  occasion,  with- 
out partiality  or  affection,  do,  in  the  presence  of  Almighty  God,  testify  that  A. 
B.  is  not,  so  far  as  we  are  informed,  justly  liable  to  evil  report,  either  for  error 
in  religion,  or  for  viciousness  in  life',  and  that  we  do  not  know  or  believe  there 


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is  any  impediment,  on  account  of  which  he  ought  not  to  be  consecrated  to  Canon  III. 
that  Holy  Office.  We  do,  moreover,  jointly  and  severally,  declare  that  we  do,  v—  y~—^ 
in  our  conscience,  believe  him  to  be  of  such  sufficiency  in  good  learning,  such 
soundness  in  the  faith,  and  of  such  virtuous  and  pure  manners,  and  godly 
conversation,  that  he  is  apt  and  meet  to  exercise  the  office  of  a  Bishop  to  the 
honor  of  God,  and  the  edifying  of  His  Church,  and  to  be  a  wholesome  example 
to  the  flock  of  Christ." 

[2.]  The  evidence  of  the  consent  of  the   Standing   Committees        Testimony 

shall  be  in  the  form  following :  *om ,.      _  th'e 

&  Standing  Com- 

mittees. 
Testimony  from    the   Sta?idmg   Committee   of  {naming  the   Diocese). 

"  Wc,  whose  names  are  underwritten,  fully  sensible  how  important  it  is  that 
the  sacred  office  of  a  Bishop  should  not  be  unworthily  conferred,  and  firmly 
persuaded  that  it  is  our  duty  to  bear  testimony,  on  this  solemn  occasion,  with- 
out partiality  or  affection,  do,  in  the  presence  of  Almighty  God,  testify  that  A. 
B.  is  not,  so  far  as  we  are  informed,  justly  liable  to  evil  report,  either  for  error 
in  religion,  or  for  viciousness  of  life;  and  that  we  do  not  know  or  believe 
there  is  any  impediment,  on  account  of  which  he  ought  not  to  be  consecrated 
to  that  Holy  Office,  but  that  he  hath,  as  we  believe,  led  his  life,  for  three  years 
last  past,  piously,  soberly  and  honestly." 

[3.]  And  if  the  major  number  of  the  Standing  Committees  shall  Consent  of 
consent  to  the  proposed  consecration,  the  Standing  Committee  of  the  Elsll0Ps- 
Diocese  concerned  shall  forward  the  evidence  of  such  consent? 
together  with  other  testimonials,  to  the  Presiding  Bishop  of  the 
House  of  Bishops,  or,  in  case  of  his  death,  to  the  Bishop  who, 
according  to  the  rules  of  the  House  of  Bishops,  is  to  preside  at  the 
next  General  Council,  who  shall  communicate  the  same  to  all  the 
Bishops  of  this  Church  in  the  Confederate  States;  and  if  a  majority 
of  the  Bishops  consent  to  the  consecration,  the  Presiding  Bishop, 
or  Bishop  aforesaid,  with  any  two  Bishops,  or  any  three  Bishops  to 
whom  he  may  communicate  the  testimonials,  may  proceed  to  perform 
the  same. 

[4.]    The   consecration   of  a   Bishop  shall,   if    practicable,   take       piace    0f 
place  always  in  the  Diocese  of  which  he  is  the  Bishop  elect.  consecration. 

§  3.  No  man  shall  be  consecrated   a  Bishop  of  this  Church  until     Ar,e 
he  shall  be  thirty  years  old. 

§  4.  When  a  Bishop  of  a  Diocese  is  unable,  by  reason  of  old  age,       Assistant 
or  other  permanent  cause  of  infirmity,  to  discharge  his  Episcopal  Bishop, 
duties,  one   Assistant  Bishop  may  be  elected  by  and  for  the  said 
Diocese,  who  shall,  in  all  cases,  succeed  the  Bishop,  in  case  of  sur- 
viving him.     The  Assistant   Bishop  shall  perform  such  Episcopal 


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TITLE  II. —  General  Regulations  of  Ministers. 


Canon  III. 


No  Suffragans. 


Episcopal 
visitations. 


Episcopal 
residence. 

Bishops    ab- 
sent for  a  time, 


Forms  of 
prayer  and 
thanksgiving 
for  extraor- 
dinary occa- 
sions. 


duties,  and  exercise  such  Episcopal  authority  in  the  Diocese,  as  the 
Bishop  shall  assign  to  him ;  and,  in  case  of  the  Bishop's  inability  to 
assign  such  duties,  declared  by  the  Council  of  the  Diocese,  the 
Assistant  Bishop  shall,  during  such  inability,  perform  all  the  duties, 
and  exercise  all  the  authorities  which  appertain-  to  the  office  of  a 
Bishop.  No  person  shall  be  elected  or  consecrated  a  Suffragan 
Bishop,  nor  shall  there  be  more  than  one  Assistant  Bishop  in  a 
Diocese  at  the  same  time. 

§  5.  [1.]  Every  Bishop  of  this  Church  shall  visit  the  Churches 
within  his  Diocese  at  least  once  in  three  years,  for  the  purpose  of 
examining  the  state  of  his  Church,  inspecting  the  behavior  of  his 
clergy,  administering  the  apostolic  rite  of  confirmation,  ministering 
the  Word,  and  if  he  think  fit,  administering  the  Sacrament  of  the 
Lord's  Supper  to  the  people  committed  to  his  charge,  and  shall  keep 
a  register  of  all  his  official  acts. 

[2.]  No  Bishop  of  this  Church  shall  reside  beyond  the  limits  of 
his  Diocese,  unless  with  the  consent  of  his  Diocesan  Council. 

§  6.  It  shall  be  lawful  for  any  Bishop  of  a  Diocese,  who  is  about 
to  leave  or  has  left  his  Diocese,  with  the  intention  of  going  out  of 
the  limits  of  the  Confederate  States,  or  if  remaining  out  of  his 
Diocese  for  the  space  of  three  calendar  months,  although  without 
leaving  vthe  Confederate  States,  to  authorize,  by  writing  under  his 
hand  and  seal,  the  Assistant  Bishop,  or,  should  there  be  none,  the 
Standing  Committee  of  such  Diocese,  to  act  as  the  Ecclesiastical 
Authority  thereof.  The  Assistant  Bishop,  or  Standing  Committee 
so  authorized,  shall  thereupon  become  the  Ecclesiastical  Authority 
of  such  Diocese,  to  all  intents  and  purposes,  until  such  writing  shall 
be  revoked,  or  the  Bishop  shall  return  within  the  Diocese :  Pro- 
vided, that  nothing  in  this  Canon  shall  be  so  construed  as  to  pre- 
vent any  Bishop,  who  may  have  signed  such  writing,  from  exercising 
his  jurisdiction  himself,  so  far  as  the  same  may  be  practicable, 
during  his  absence  from  his  Diocese,  or  from  permitting  and  author- 
izing any  other  Bishop  to  perform  Episcopal  offices  for  him. 

§  7.  The  Bishop  of  each  Diocese  may  compose  forms  of  prayer 
or  thanksgiving,  as  the  case  may  require,  for  extraordinary  occa- 
sions, and  transmit  them  to  each  Clergyman  within  his  Diocese, 
whose  duty  it  shall  be  to  use  such  forms  in  his  Church  on  such 
occasions.  And  the  Clergy  in  those  States  or  Dioceses,  or  other 
places  within  the  bounds  of  this  Church,  in  which  there  is  no 
Bishop,  may  use  the   form  of  prayer  or  thanksgiving  composed  by 


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the  Bishop  of  any  Diocese.  The  Bishop  in  each  Diocese  may  also  Cauon  III. 
compose  forms  of  prayer  to  be  used  before  legislative  and  other  ^—^v— •* 
public  bodies. 

§  8.  Any  Bishop,  Assistant  Bishop,  or  Missionary  Bishop,  Episcopal 
may,  on  the  invitation  of  the  Council  or  the  Standing  Committee  dioceses, 
of  any  Diocese  where  the*re  is  no  Bishop,  or  where  the  Bishop  is, 
for  the  time,  under  a  disability  to  perform  Episcopal  Offices  by 
reason  of  a  judicial  sentence,  visit  and  perform  Episcopal  Offices  in 
that  Diocese,  or  in  any  part  thereof;  and  this  invitation  may  be 
temporary,  and  it  may  at  any  time  be  revoked. 

§  9.  [1.]  The  House  of  Deputies   may,  from   time  to  time,   on     Domestic 
nomination  by  the  House  of  Bishops,  elect  a  suitable  person  to  be  a  Bishops. 
Bishop  of  this  Church,  to  exercise  Episcopal  functions  in  States  or 
Territories  not  organized  into   Dioceses.      The   evidence   of   such     ,    Mode  *nd 
election  shall  be  a  certificate,  to  be  subscribed  by  a  constitutional  election, 
majority  of  said    House  of   Deputies,   in   the    form    required   by 
vj  2   of   this   Canon    to    be    given   by    the   members    of    Diocesan 
Councils,  on  the  recommendation  of  Bishops  elect  for  consecration, 
which  certificate  shall  be  produced  to   the  House  of  Bishops ;  and 
if  the   House  of  Bishops  shall  consent  to  the   consecration,  they 
may  take  order  for  that  purpose. 

[2.]  The  Bishop  so  elected  and  consecrated  shall  exercise  Epis-  Jurisdiction. 
copal  functions  in  such  States  and  Territories,  in  conformity  with 
the  Constitution  and  Canons  of  this  Church,  and  under  such  regu- 
lations and  instructions,  not  inconsistent  therewith,  as  the  House  of 
Bishops  may  prescribe ;  and  the  House  of  Bishops  may  at  any  time 
increase  or  diminish  the  number  of  States  or  Territories  over  which 
the  said  Bishop  or  Bishops  shall  exercise  Episcopal  functions. 

[3.]  In  case  of  the  death  or  resignation  of  a  Missionary  Bishop,     Vacancy, 
or  of  vacancy  by  other  cause,  the  charge  of  the  vacant  Missionary 
Episcopate  shall,  until   another  Bishop  be  elected  and  consecrated, 
devolve  on  the  senior   Bishop   of  this  Church,  with  the  power  of 
appointing  some  other  Bishop  as  his  substitute  in  said  charge. 

[4.]  The  jurisdiction  of  this  Church  extending  in  right,  though  Discipline, 
not  always  in  form,  to  all  persons  belonging  to  it  within  the  Con- 
federate States  and  Territories,  it  is  hereby  enacted,  that  each 
Missionary  Bishop  shall  have  jurisdiction  over  the  clergy  in  the 
district  assigned  him,  and  may,  in  case  a  presentment  and  trial  of  a 
clergyman  become  proper,  request  the  action  of  any  Presbyters  and 
Standing  Committee,  in  any  Diocese  sufficiently  near,  and  the  pre- 


30  TITLE  II. — General  Regulations  of  Ministers. 

Canon  III.    sentinent  and  trial  shall  be  according  to  the  Constitution  and  Canons 

^- — y— ^  0f  said  Diocese.  Or,  if  there  be  such  a  Standing  Committee  ap- 
pointed by  the  Missionary  Bishop  as  is  hereinafter  provided  for,  the 
clerical  members  thereof  may  make  presentment,  and  the  trial  shall 
take  place  according  to  the  Constitution  and  Canons  of  any  Diocese 
of  this  Church  which  may  have  been  selected  at  the  time  of  the 
appointment  of  such  Standing  Committee :  Provided,  that  the 
Court  shall  be  composed  of  at  least  three  Presbyters,  excluding  the 
members  of  the  Standing  Committee  and  the  accused. 

Seat  in  House  [5.]  Any  Bishop  or  Bishops  elected  and  consecrated  under  this 
ops.  Section  shall  be  entitled  to  a  seat  in  the  House  of  Bishops,  and 
shall  be  eligible  to  the  office  of  Diocesan  Bishop  in  any  organized 
Eligible  as  Diocese  within  the  Confederate  States.  And  whenever  a  Diocese 
Diocesan.  shall  have  been  organized  within  the  jurisdiction  of  such  Missionary 
Bishop,  if  he  shall  be  chosen  Bishop  of  such  Diocese,  he  may 
accept  the  office,  and  shall  thereby  vacate  his  missionary  appoint- 
ment: Provided,  that  he  continue  to  discharge  the  duties  of  Mis- 
sionary Bishop  within  the  residue  of  his  original  jurisdiction,  if 
there  be  such  residue. 

May  appoint      [0.]  Every  such  Bishop  may  yearly  appoint  two  Presbyters,  and 

Standing  Com-  ^WQ  Laymen    communicants  of  this   Church,   resident  within   his 

mittee.  •> 

missionary  jurisdiction,  to  perform  the  duties  of  a  Standing  Com- 
mittee for  such  jurisdiction:  Provided,  that  no  Standing  Committee 
constituted  under  this  Section  shall  have  power  to  give  or  refuse 
assent  to  the  consecration  of  a  Bishop. 
Report  to      [7.]  Every    such  Bishop  shall  report   to  each  General    Council 

General  Coun-  j^    0fficiaj  acts  an(j  ^g  state  and  condition  of  the  Church  in  said 

Cll. 

States  and  Territories  of  the  Confederate  States. 
Foreign  §  10.     [1.]  The  House  of  Deputies  may,  from  time  to  time,  on 

Bishops.  nomination  by  the  House  of  Bishops,  elect  a  suitable  person  to  be  a 

Bishop  of  this  Church,  to  exercise  Episcopal  functions  in  any  mis- 
sionary station  of  this  Church  out  of  the  Territory  of  the  Confed- 
erate States,  which  the  House  of  Bishops,  with  the  concurrence  of 
the  House  of  Deputies,  may  have  designated.  The  evidence  of 
Evidence  of  such  election  shall  be  a  certificate,  to  be  subscribed  by  a  constitu- 
election.  tional  majority  of  said  House  of  Deputies,  expressing  their  assent 

to  the  said  nomination,  which  certificate  shall  be  produced  to  the 
House  of  Bishops ;  and  if  the  House  of  Bishops  shall  consent  to 
the  consecration,  they  may  take  order  for  that  purpose. 
Jurisdiction.      [2.]  Any  Bishop  elected  and  consecrated  under  this  Section,  or 


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any  foreign  Missionary  Bishop  heretofore  consecrated  to  exercise    Canon  III. 

Episcopal  functions  in  any  place  or  country  which  may  have  been  Y 

thus  designated,  shall  have   no  jurisdiction,  except  in  the  place  or 

country  for  which  he  has  been  elected  and  consecrated.     He  shall 

be  entitled  to  a  seat,  but  not  a  vote,  in  the  House  of  Bishops.     He 

shall  not  become  a  Diocesan  Bishop  in  any  organized  Diocese  within 

the  Confederate  States,  unless  with  the  consent  of  three-fourths  of 

all  the  Bishops  entitled  to  seats  in  the  House  of  Bishops,  and  also 

with  the  consent  of  the  Standing  Committees  of  three-fourths  of 

the  Dioceses. 

[3.]  Any  Bishop  consecrated  under  this  Section,  or  any  Foreign  Mode  of  try- 
Missionary  Bishop  heretofore  consecrated,  shall,  on  presentment  by 
two-thirds  of  the  Missionaries  under  his  charge,  for  immorality  or 
heresy,  or  for  a  violation  of  the  Constitution  or  Canons  of  this 
Church,  be  tried,  and,  if  found  guilty,  sentenced,  in  all  particulars 
as  if  he  were  actually  resident  within  the  limits  of  the  Confederate 
States,  except  that  the  trial  may  be  within  any  Diocese  in  the  Con- 
federate States. 

[4.]  Any  Bishop  elected  and  consecrated  under  this  Section,  or     May  ordain, 
any  Foreign  Missionary  Bishop  heretofore  consecrated,  may  ordain 
as  Deacons  or  Presbyters,  to  officiate  within  the  limits  of  his  Mis- 
sion, any  persons  of  the  age  required  by  the  Canons  of  this  Church, 
who  shall  exhibit  to  him  the  testimonials  required  bv  Canons  V.  and     Testimonial? 

for  Orders. 

VII.  of  Title  I.,  signed  by  not  less  than  two  of  the  ordained  Mis- 
sionaries of  this  Church  who  may  be  subject  to  his  charge:  Pro- 
vided, nevertheless,  that  if  there  be  only  one  ordained  Missionary 
attached  to  the  Mission,  and  capable  of  acting  at  the  time,  the  sig- 
nature of  a  Presbyter,  under  the  jurisdiction  of  any  Bishop  in 
communion  with  this  Church,  in  good  standing,  may  be  admitted  to 
supply  the  deficiency. 

[5.]  Any  Foreign  Missionary  Bishop  consecrated  under  this  Dispensation. 
Section,  or  heretofore  consecrated,  may,  by  and  with  the  advice  of 
two  Presbyters,  one  of  whom,  if  necessity  require,  shall  be  a  Pres- 
byter in  good  standing  under  the  jurisdiction  of  any  Bishop  in 
communion  with  this  Church,  dispense  with  those  studies  required 
from  a  candidate  for  Deacons'  Orders  by  the  Canons  of  this  Church: 
J'rovided,  no  person  shall  be  ordained  by  him  who  has  not  passed  a  Provisos, 
satisfactory  examination,  in  the  presence  of  two  Presbyters,  as  to  his 
theological  learning  and  aptitude  to  teach :  And  provided,  further, 
that  no  person  shall  be  ordained  by  him  until  he  shall  have  been  a 


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TITLE  II. —  General  Regulations  of  Ministers. 


Canon  III. 


Restrictions. 


Standing 
Committee. 


Trials. 


candidate  for  at  least  three  years.  Nor  shall  any  Deacon  or  Priest, 
who  shall  have  been  ordained  under  this  Section,  be  allowed  to  hold 
any  cure,  or  officiate  in  the  Church  in  these  Confederate  States, 
until  he  shall  have  complied  with  existing  Canons,  relating  to  the 
learning  of  persons  to  be  ordained. 
Jurisdiction  [6.]  Any  Foreign  Missionary  Bishop  elected  and  consecrated 
clerffvmen  un(^er  tn*s  Section,  or  any  Foreign  Missionary  Bishop  heretofore 
consecrated,  shall  have  jurisdiction  and  government  according  to  the 
Canons  of  this  Church  over  all  Missionaries  or  Clergymen  of  this 
Church,  resident  in  the  district  or  country  for  which  he  may  have 
been  consecrated. 

[7.]  Every  such  Bishop  may  yearly  appoint  not  less  than  two,  nor 
more  than  five  Presbyters,  resident  within  his  missionary  jurisdic- 
tion, to  act  as  a  Standing  Committee  in  such  missionary  jurisdiction, 
upon  all  questions  pertaining  to  the  interests  of  such  missionary 
jurisdiction;  and,  in  case  of  the  absence  of  the  Bishop  from  his 
jurisdiction,  or  of  a  vacancy  in  the  Episcopate,  said  Standing  Com- 
mittee shall  be  the  Ecclesiastical  Authority  of  such  missionary 
jurisdiction. 

[8.]  If  any  Minister  of  this  Church,  acting  under  a  Foreign  Mis- 
sionary appointment,  and  within  the  jurisdiction  of  a  Foreign 
Missionary  Bishop  of  this  Church,  shall  commit  any  offence  for 
which  Ministers  may  be  tried  and  punished,  or  shall  refuse  obe- 
dience to  the  lawful  authority  of  the  Missionary  Bishop,  such 
Clergyman  shall  be  proceeded  against  according  to  the  Constitution 
and  Canons  of  any  Diocese  in  this  Church,  which  may  have  been 
selected  at  the  time  of  the  appointment  of  the  Standing  Committee 
of  such  missionary  jurisdiction :  Provided,  that  a  presentment  shall 
first  be  made  by  the  members  of  said  Standing  Committee,  or,  if 
thr  accused  party  be  a  member  of  the  Standing  Committee,  by  the 
other  member  or  members  thereof. 

[9.]  The  Court  for  the  trial  of  such  Minister  shall  consist  of  five 
Presbyters,  excluding  the  members  of  the  Standing  Committee;  or, 
if  there  be  not  five,  then  of  all  the  members  of  such  missionary 
jurisdiction.  If  there  be  more  than  five,  then  shall  the  Standing 
Committee  select,  by  lot,  the  five  who  shall  compose  the  Court, 
which  Court  shall  proceed  in  the  trial,  according  to  the  Canons  of 
the  General  Council  of  the  Protestant  Episcopal  Church  in  the 
Confederate  States,  so  far  as  the  same  may  be  applicable  to  such  a 
case;  and  where  no  provision  is  made  adequate  to  the  exigency,  the 


The  Court. 


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Court  shall  consider  and  adjudge  the  ease  according  to  the  princi-     Canon  III. 
pies  of  law  and  equity.  v^-^ 

[10.]  The  sentence  of  the  Court  shall  be  rendered  to  the  Bishop     Sentence, 
of  such  missionary  jurisdiction,  who  shall  have  power  to  revise  and 
modify  the  same,  and  the  decision  of  the  Bishop  shall  be  final  and 
conclusive. 

[11.]  Every  Bishop  elected  and  consecrated  under  this  Section,       Report    to 
or  Foreign  Missionary  Bishop  heretofore  consecrated,  shall  report  to  General  0°un- 
each  General  Council  his  official  acts,  and  the  state  of  the  Mission 
under  his  supervision. 

§  11.     [1.]  When  a  Diocese,  entitled  to  the  choice  of  a  Bishop,  Election 

shall  elect  as  its  Diocesan  a  Missionary  Bishop  of  this  Church,  the  bishop  ^as^a 
Standing  Committee  of  the  Diocese  electing  shall  give  duly  certified  Diocesan, 
evidence  of  the  election  to  every  Bishop  of  this  Church,  and  to  the 
Standing  Committee  of  every  Diocese.  On  receiving  notice  of 
the  concurrence  of  a  majority  of  the  Bishops  and  of  the  Stand- 
ing Committees  in  the  election,  and  their  express  consent  thereto 
the  Standing  Committee  of  the  Diocese  concerned  shall  transmit 
notice  thereof  to  every  Bishop  of  this  Church,  and  to  the  Standing 
Committee  of  each  vacant  Diocese,  which  notice  shall  state  what 
Bishops  and  what  Standing  Committees  have  consented  to  the  elec- 
tion. And  the  same  Committee  shall  transmit  to  every  Congre- 
gation in  the  Diocese  concerned,  to  be  publicly  read  therein,  a  notice 
of  the  election  to  the  Episcopate  thereof  of  the  Bishop  thus  elected, 
and  also  cause  public  notice  thereof  to  be  given  in  such  other  way 
as  they  may  think  proper. 

[2.]  A  Diocese  without  a  Bishop,  or  of  which  the  Bishop  is  for    Diocese  with- 
the  time  under  a  disability  by  reason  of  a  judicial  sentence,  may,  pj^jj  Bundc? 
by  its  Council,   be  placed   under   the   full  Episcopal   charge  and  charge  of  an- 
authority    of  the  Bishop  of  another  Diocese,    or   of  a    Missionary  ° 
Bishop,  who  shall  by  that  act  be  authorized  to  perform  all  the  duties 
and  offices  of  the  Bishop  of  the  Diocese  so  vacant  or  having  the 
Bishop  disabled;  until,  in  the  case  of  a  vacant  Diocese,  a  Bishop  be 
duly  elected  and  consecrated  for  the  same;  and,  in  the  case  of  a 
Diocese  whose  Bishop  is  disqualified  as  aforesaid,  until  the  disquali- 
fication be  removed;  or  until,  in  either  case,  the  said  act  of  the 
Council  be  revoked. 

[3.]  No  Diocese  thus  placed  under  the  full  charge  and  authority  Bishop  to  offi- 
of  the  Bishop  of  another  Diocese,  or  a  Missionary  Bishop,  shall  c^?  ^^ 
invite  a  second  Bishop  to  perform  any  Episcopal  duty,  or  exercise  charge. 


o4  TITLE  II. —  General  Regulations  of  Ministers. 

Canon  III.    authority,  till  its  connection  with  the  first  Bishop  has  expired  or  is 

v>—    v-"'    revoked. 

Episcopal  re-      s  12.     [l."|  If   durino-  the  session  of  the  General  Council,   or 

signations.  ....,,  .     .     „  ,  .  „  .    -  ., 

within  six  calendar  months  before  the  meeting  of  any  such  Council, 

a  Bishop  shall  desire  to  resign  his  jurisdiction,  he  shall  make  known 

in  writing  to  the  House  of  Bishops  such  his  desire,  together  with 

the  reasons  moving  him  thereto ;  whereupon  the  House  of  Bishops 

Investigation,  may  investigate  the  whole  case  of  the  proposed  resignation,  includ- 
ing not  only  the  facts  and  reasons  that  may  be  set  forth  in  the 
application  for  the  proposed  resignation,  but  any  other  facts  and 
circumstances  bearing  upon  it,  so  that  the  whole  subject  of  the  pro- 
priety or  necessity  of  such  resignation  may  be  placed  fully  before 
the  House  of  Bishops. 
House    of      [2.]  An   investigation   having  thus   been  made,  the   House  of 

ccpt  or  refuse.  Bishops  may  decide  on  the  application ;  and,  by  the  vote  of  a  ma- 
jority of  those  present,  accept  or  refuse  to  accept  such  resignation; 
and,  in  all  cases  of  a  proposed  resignation,  the  Bishops  shall  cause 
their  proceedings  to  be  recorded  on  their  journal;  and,  in  case  of 
acceptance,  the  resignation  shall  be  complete  when  thus  recorded; 
and  notice  thereof  shall  be  given  to  the  House  of  Deputies. 
Resignation      r3.~i  jn  case  a  Bishop  should  desire  to  resign  at  any  period  not 

(Itiriiiir     recess 

of        General  within  six  calendar  months  before  the  meeting  of  a  General  Council, 
Council.  ke  s]iau  make  known  to  the  Presiding  Bishop  such  his  desire,  with 

the  reasons  moving  him  thereunto;  whereupon  the  Presiding 
Bishop  shall  communicate,  without  delay,  a  copy  of  the  same  to 
every  Bishop  of  this  Church  having  ecclesiastical  jurisdiction,  and 
also  to  the  Standing  Committee  of  the  Diocese  to  which  the  Bishop 
desiring  to  resign  may  belong;  and,  at  the  same  time,  summon  said 
Bishops  to  Bishops  to  meet  him  in  person,  at  a  place  to  be  by  him  designated, 
and  at  a  time  not  less  than  three  calendar  months  from  the  date  of 
his  summons;  and,  should  a  number  not  less  than  a  majority  of  all 
the  said  Bishops  meet  at  the  time  and  place  designated,  they  shall 
then  have  all  the  powers  given  by  the  previous  clauses  of  this  Sec- 
tion to  the  House  of  Bishops;  and,  should  a  number  less  than  a 
majority  assemble,  they  shall  have  power  to  adjourn  from  time  to 
time,  until  they  can  secure  the  attendance  of  a  majority  of  all  the 
said  Bishops.  Should  a  proposed  resignation  of  a  Bishop  be  ac- 
cepted at  any  meeting  of  the  Bishops  for  that  purpose  held  during 
a  recess,  then  the  senior  Bishop  present  shall  pronounce  such  resig- 
Notice.  nation  complete,  and   communicate  the  same  to  the  Ecclesiastical 


TITLE  II. —  General  Regulations  of  Mi ,ti*t<  is.  35 

Authority  of  each  Diocese,  who  shall  cause  the  same  to  be  commu-    Canon  III. 

nicated  to  the  several  Clergymen  in  charge  of  Congregations  therein.  Y 

And  it  shall  be  the  further  duty  of  the  Presiding  Bishop  to  cause 

such  resignation  to  be  formally  recorded  on  the  journal  of  the  House     Record. 

of  Bishops  that  may  meet  in  General  Council  next  thereafter.     If 

the  Bishop  desirous  of  resigning  should  be  the  Presiding  Bishop,     if  Presiding 

then  all  the  duties  directed  in  this  Section  to  be  performed  by  the  Blsh°P- 

Presiding  Bishop  shall  devolve  upon  the  Bishop  next  in  seniority. 

[4.]  No  Bishop  whose  resignation  of  the  Episcopal  jurisdiction  Resigned 

of  a  Diocese  has  been  consummated  pursuant  to  this  Section,  shall  to  Pni0feae 
be  eligible  to  any  Diocese  now  in  union,  or  which  may  hereafter  be  under  what  re 
admitted  into  union,  with  this  Church,  unless  with  the  consent  of 
three-fourths  of  all  the  Bishops  entitled  to  seats  in  the  House  of 
Bishops,  and,  also,  of  three-fourths  of  the  Deputies  present  at  the 
session  of  the  General  Council,  or,  in  the  recess  of  the  General 
Council,  with  the  consent  of  the  Standing  Committees  of  three- 
fourths  of  the  Dioceses;  but  he  may  perform  Episcopal  acts  at  the 
request  of  any  Bishop   of  this   Church  within   the   limits  of  his 

Diocese.  .       Bishops  with- 

[5.]  A  Bishop,  who  ceases  to  have  charge  of  a  Diocese,  shall  still  out  charge 
be  subject  in  all  matters  to  the  Canons  and  authority  of  the  General  (jenerai  coun- 
Council. .  Cl1- 

[6.]  In  case  a  suspended  Bishop  of  this  Church  should  desire  to      Resignation 
resign  at  any  period  not  within  six  calendar  months  before  the  meet-  Bis^o"811611 
ing  of  a  General  Council,  he  shall  make  known  by  letter  to  the 
Presiding  Bishop  such  desire;  whereupon  the  Presiding  Bishop 
shall  communicate  a  copy  of  the  same  to  each  Bishop  of  this  Church 
having  jurisdiction;  and,  in  case  a  majority  of  such  Bishops  shall 
return  to  the  Presiding  Bishop  their  written  assent  to  such  resig- 
nation, the  same  shall  be  deemed  valid  and  final;  and  written  infor- 
mation of  the  said  resignation  shall  at  once  be  communicated  by     Notice, 
the  Presiding  Bishop  to  the  Bishop  and  Diocese  concerned,  and  to 
each  Bishop  of  this  Church.     And  it  shall  be  the  further  duty  of 
the   Presiding  Bishop  to  cause  such  resignation  to  be  formally  re- 
corded  on  the  journal  of  the  House  of  Bishops  that  may  meet  in        ecor  ' 
General  Council  next  thereafter. 


36  TITLE  II. —  General  Regulations  of  Ministers. 

Canon  IV. 

1 — v— '  CANON  IY. 

OF   A   LIST   OF   THE   MINISTERS   OF   THIS   CHURCH. 

Secretary  of  §  l-  The  Secretary  of  the  House  of  Deputies  shall  keep  a  regis- 
House  of  De-  ter  of  all  the  Clergy  of  this  Church,  whose  names  shall  be  delivered 
puties  to  keep  .-in  n       •  1         •  mi       -n     1     •       •     i 

a  Register.        to  him.  m  the  following  manner,  that  is  to  say:  Ihe  Ecclesiastical 

Authority  of  this  Church,  in  each  Diocese,  shall,  at  the  time  of 
each  General  Council,  deliver  to  the  said  Secretary  a  list  of  the 
names  of  all  the  Ministers  of  this  Church  in  their  proper  Dioceses, 
annexing  the  names  of  their  respective  cures,  or  of  their  stations  in 
any  Colleges  or  other  Seminaries  of  Learning ;  or,  in  regard  to  those 
who  have  not  any  cures  or  other  stations,  their  places  of  residence 
only;  and  the  said  list  shall,  from  time  to  time,  be  published  in  the 
journals  of  the  General  Council. 
Admission  of  §  ^-  And,  further,  it  is  recommended  to  the  several  Bishops  of 
Ministers  to  be  this  Church,  and  to  the  several  Standing  Committees,  that,  during 
the  intervals  between  the  meetings  of  the  General  Council,  they 
take  such  means  of  making  known  the  admission  of  Ministers 
among  them,  as,  in  their  discretion,  respectively,  they  shall  think 
effectual  to  the  purpose  of  preventing  ignorant  and  unwary  people 
from  being  imposed  on  by  persons  pretending  to  be  authorized  Min- 
isters of  this  Church. 


CANON  V. 


ports. 


OF  THE  MODE  OF  SECURING  AN   ACCURATE  VIEW  OF  THE  STATE 
OF  THE  CHURCH. 

Statement  in  §  ■"-•  As  a  ^"u^  an(^  accurate  yiew  0I>  the  state  of  the  Church,  from 
Parochial  Re-  time  to  time,  is  highly  useful  and  necessary,  it  is  hereby  ordered 
that  every  Minister  of  this  Church,  or  if  the  Parish  be  vacant,  the 
Wardens,  shall  deliver,  on  or  before  the  first  day  of  every  Diocesan 
Council,  to  the  Bishop  of  the  Diocese,  or  where  there  is  no  Bishop,  to 
the  President  of  the  Council,  a  statement  of  the  number  of  baptisms, 
confirmations,  marriages  and  funerals,  and  of  the  number  of  commu- 
nicants in  his  Parish  or  Church,  also  the  state  and  condition  of  the 


TITLE  II. — General  Regulations  of  Ministers.  37 

Sunday  Schools  in  his  Parish,  also  of  the  amount  of  the  Commu-     Canon  V. 

nion  alms,  the  contributions  for  Missions,  diocesan,  domestic  and  v~~^ 

foreign,  for  parochial  schools,  for  Church  purposes  in  general,  and 

of  all  other  matters  that  may -throw  light  on  the  state  of  the  same. 

And  every  Clergyman,  not  regularly  settled  in  any  Parish  or  Church,        Clergymen 

shall  also  report  the  occasional  services  he  may  have  performed ;  and,  report  services. 

if  he  have  performed  no  such  services,  the  causes  or  reasons  which 

have  prevented  the  same.     And  these  reports,  or  such  parts  of  them 

as  the  Bishop  shall  think  fit,  may  be  read  in  Council,  and  shall  be 

entered  on  the  journals  thereof. 

§  2.  At  every  annual  Diocesan  Council,  the  Bishop  shall  deliver  Bishop's  Ad- 
an  address,  stating  the  affairs  of  the  Diocese  since  the  last  meeting  ss" 
of  the  Council;  the  names  of  the  Churches  which  he  has  visited; 
the  number  of  persons  confirmed;  the  names  of  those  who  have 
been  received  as  candidates  for  Orders,  and  of  those  who  have  been 
ordained,  suspended,  or  degraded;  the  changes  by  death,  removal, 
or  otherwise,  which  have  taken  place  among  the  Clergy;  and,  in 
general,  all  matters  tending  to  throw  light  on  the  affairs  of  the 
Diocese;  which  address  shall  be  inserted  on  the  journals. 

§  3.  At  every  General  Council,  the  journals  of  the  different  Dio-        Committco 
cesan  Councils  since  the  last  General  Council,  together  with  such  °?  ^  Btaj®  of 
other  papers  as  may  tend  to  throw  light  on  the  state  of  the  Church 
in  each  Diocese,  viz :  Episcopal  charges,  addresses  and  pastoral  let- 
ters, shall  be  presented  to  the  House  of  Deputies.     A  Committee 
shall  then  be  appointed  to  draw  up  a  view  of  the  state  of  the 
Church,   and   to   make    report  to   the   House   of  Deputies;  which 
report,  when  agreed  to  by  the  said  House,  shall  be  sent  to  the 
House  of  Bishops,  with  a  request  that  they  will  prepare  and  publish 
a  Pastoral  Letter  to  the  members  of  the  Church.     When  any  such     Pastoral  Let- 
letter  is  published,  every  Clergyman  having  a  Pastoral  charge  shall ter* 
read  it  to  his  Congregation  on  some  occasion  of  public  worship. 

§  4.  The  Secretary  of  the  Council  of  every  Diocese,  or  the  per-     Duty  of  Dio- 
son  or  persons  with  whom  the  journals  or  other  ecclesiastical  papers  c.csan  Secreta_ 
are  lodged,  shall  forward  to  the  House  of  Deputies,  at  every  Gene- 
ral Council,  the  documents  and  papers  specified  in  this  Canon. 

§  5.  The   Bishop  and   Standing   Committee  of  the   Church   in        Condensed 
every  Diocese,  or,  if  there  be  no  Bishop,  the  Standing  Committee  ca^Diocese111 
only,  shall   prepare,  previously   to   the  meeting   of  every   General 
Council,  a  condensed  report,  and  a  tabular  view  of  the  state  of  the 


38  TITLE  II. —  General  Regulations  of  Ministers. 

Canon  V.      Cliurch  in  their  Diocese,  comprising  therein  a  summary  of  the  sta- 
Y  tistics  from  the  parochial  reports,  and  from  the  Bishop's  addresses, 

specifying  the  capital  and  proceeds  of  the  Episcopal  fund,  and  of  all 
benevolent  and  missionary  associations  of  Churchmen  within  the 
Diocese,  for  the  purpose  of  aiding  the  Committee  on  the  state  of 
the  Church,  appointed  by  the  House  of  Deputies,  in  drafting  their 
reports. 


CANON  VI. 


OF   THE   MODE   OF  PUBLISHING   AUTHORIZED   EDITIONS   OF   THE 
STANDARD    BIBLE   OF   THIS   CHURCH. 

Editions  of      The    Ecclesiastical    Authority    in  each  Diocese  of  this   Church 

the  Bible  to  be    i     n  ■    ,     n  ,•  ,      ,-  •■    ii 

corrected     by  sua^  appoint,  from  time  to  time,  some  suitable  person  or  persons,  to 

the  Standard,    compare  and  correct  all  new  editions  of  the  Bible  by  the  standard 

edition  agreed  upon  by  the  General  Council,  and  a  certificate  of 

their  having  been  so  compared  and  corrected  shall  be   published 

with  said  book. 


CANON  VII. 

OF  PUBLISHING   EDITIONS   OF   THE   BOOKBOF   COMMON   PRAYER. 

Correct  Edi-  The  Ecclesiastical  Authority  of  this  Church,  in  each  Diocese, 
Prayer-Book.  shall  appoint  one  or  more  Presbyters  of  the  Diocese,  who  shall  com- 
pare and  correct  every  new  edition  of  the  Common  Prayer-Book, 
the  Articles,  Offices,  Metre  Psalms  and  Hymns,  by  a  copy  of  the 
standard  edition ;  and  a  certificate  that  said  edition  has  been  so  com- 
pared and  corrected,  shall  be  published  with  the  same.  And  in 
case  any  edition  shall  be  published  without  such  correction,  it  shall 
be  the  duty  of  the  said  Ecclesiastical  Authority  to  give  public 
notice  that  such  edition  is  not  authorized  by  the  Cliurch. 


TITLE  II. —  General  Regulations  of  Ministers.  39 

Canon  VIII. 

CANON  VIII.  "--> — ' 

OF  PAROCHIAL   INSTRUCTION. 

The   Ministers  of  this   Church  who  have  charge  of  parishes  or     Parochial  in- 
cures,  shall  not  only  be  diligent  in  instructing  the  children  in  the  structl0n- 
Catechism,  but  shall,  also,  by  stated  catechetical  lectures  and  in- 
struction, be  diligent  in  informing  the  youth  and  others  in  the  Doc- 
trine, Constitution  and  Liturgy  of  the  Church. 


Discretion 


CANON   IX. 

ON  THE  USE  OF  THE  COOK  OF  COMMON  FRAYER. 

§  1.  (1.)  Every  Minister  shall,  before  all  sermons  and  lectures,  Uso  enjoined. 
and  on  all  other  occasions  of  public  worship,  use  the  Book  of  Com- 
mon Prayer,  as  the  same  is,  or  may  be,  established  by  the  authority 
of  the  General  Council  of  this  Church ;  and  in  performing  such 
service,  no  other  prayers  shall  be  used  than  those  prescribed  by  the 
said  Book.  But  any  Diocese,  by  a  vote  of  a  majority  of  both 
Clergy  and  Laity  in  its  Council,  may,  with  the  consent  of  its  allowed. 
Bishop,  permit  that — 

1st.  Ministers  may,  at  their  discretion,  use  separately  the  office 
for  Morning  Prayer,  and  that,  where  a  third  service  is  to  be  held? 
the  Litany  or  the  Ante-communion  office,  or  both,  may  be  used  in 
the  afternoon ;  the  Order  for  Evening  Prayer  being  reserved  for  said 
third  service. 

2dly.  The  Order  for  Holy  Communion,  in  its  entircness,  may, 
with  a  sermon,  be  used  separately:  provided,  nevertheless,  that  on 
the  greater  Festivals  it  be  preceded  by  the  office  for  Morning  or 
Evening  Prayer. 

3dly.  On  occasions  of  services  other  than  regular  Morning  and 
Evening  Prayer  in  established  Congregations,  Ministers   may,  at  ' 
their  disci-ction,  use  such  parts  of  the  Book  of  Common  Prayer, 


40  TITLE  II. —  General  Regulations  of  Ministers. 

Canon  IX.     and  such  Lessons,  as  shall,  in  their  judgment,  tend  most  to  edifi- 

^"""""v" — '    cation. 

Special  ser-  §  2.  The  Bishops  of  the  several  Dioceses  may  provide  such 
vices.  special  services  as,  in  their  judgment,  shall  he  required  by  the  pe- 

culiar spiritual  necessities  of  any  class  or  portion  of  the  population 
within  said  Dioceses. 


TITLE  III. 
OF    DISCIPLINE 


CANON    I. 

OF  AMENABILITY   AND  OFFENCES  FOR  WHICH   A  MINISTER  MAT 
BE   TRIED   AND   PUNISHED. 

§  1.  Every  Minister  shall  be  amenable  for  offences  committed  by         To  whom 
bim  to  the  Ecclesiastical  Authority  of  the  Diocese  in  which  he  is  Ministers  ame- 

J  nable. 

canonically  resident  at  the  time  of  the  charge. 

§  2.  Every  Minister  shall  be  liable  to  presentment  and  trial,  for  Punishable 
any  crime  or  gross  immorality,  for  disorderly  conduct,  for  drunken-  °  ence£ 
ness,  for  profane  swearing,  for  frequenting  places  most  liable  to  be 
abused  to  licentiousness,  and  for  violation  of  the  Constitution  or 
Canons  of  this  Church,  or  of  the  Diocese  to  which  he  belongs;  and, 
on  being  found  guilty,  he  shall  be  admonished,  suspended,  or  de- 
graded, according  to  the  Canons  of  the  Diocese  in  which  the  trial 
takes  place,  until  otherwise  provided  for  by  the  General  Council. 

§  3.  A  Clergyman  who  presents  a  person  to  the  Bishop  for  Holy       Liability  of 
Orders,  as  specified  in  the  office  for  Ordination,  without  having  good  sentiDg. 
grounds  to  believe  that  the  requisitions  of  the  Canons  have  been 
complied  with,  shall  be  liable  to  Ecclesiastical  censure. 

§  4.  If  a  Minister  of  this  Church  shall  be  accused,  by  public  Proceedings 
rumour,  of  discontinuing  all  exercise  of  the  ministerial  office  without  ™0^ 
lawful  cause,  or  of  living  in  the  habitual  disuse  of  public  worship 
or  of  the  Holy  Eucharist  according  to  the  offices  of  this  Church,  or 
of  being  guilty  of  scandalous,  immoral  or  disorderly  conduct,  or  of 
violating  the  Canons,  or  preaching  or  inculcating  heretical  doctrine, 
it  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  Bishop,  or,  if  there  be  no  Bishop,  of  the 
Clerical  members  of  the  Standing  Committee,  to  see  that  an  inquiry 
be  instituted  as  to  the  truth  of  such  public  rumour.  And  in  case  of 
the  individual  being  proceeded  against  and  convicted  according  to 
6 


42  TITLE  III.—  Of  Discipline. 

Canon  I.      such  rules  or  process  as  may  be  provided  by  the  Councils  of  the 
V"""""V~"''     respective  Dioceses,  he  shall  be  admonished,  suspended  or  degraded, 
as  the  nature  of  the  case  may  require,  in  conformity  with  their 
respective  Constitutions  and  Canons. 


CANON  II. 


OP   A   CLERGYMAN    IN   ONE   DIOCESE   OR   MISSIONARY   DISTRICT 
CHARGEABLE   WITH   MISDEMEANOR   IN   ANOTHER. 

Offence  com-       §  1-  If  a  Clergyman  of  this  Church,  belonging  to  any  Diocese  or 
milted  .  ™.  a  Missionary  District,  shall,  in  any  other  Diocese  or  Missionary  Dis- 

different     Dio-  J  J  J 

cese.  trict,  conduct  himself  in  suchf  a  way  as  is  contrary  to  the  rules  of 

this  Church,  and  disgraceful  to  his  office,  the  Ecclesiastical  Author- 
ity thereof  shall  give  notice  of  the  same  to  the  Ecclesiastical 
Authority  where  he  is  canonically  resident,  exhibiting,  with  the 
information  given,  reasonable  ground  for  presuming  its  correctness. 
If  the  Ecclesiastical  Authority,  when  thus  informed,  shall  omit,  for 
the  space  of  three  months,  to  proceed  against  the  offending  Clergy- 
man, the  Ecclesiastical  Authority  of  the  Diocese  or  Missionary 
District,  within  which  the  alleged  offence  or  offences  were  committed, 
may  institute  proceedings,  and  the  decision  given  shall  be  con- 
clusive. 
Bishop  may      §  2.  If  a  Clergyman  shall  come  temporarily   into  any  Diocese, 

a  moms  ,  c.  untjer  ^e  imputation  of  having  elsewhere  been  guilty  of  any  crime 
or  misdemeanor,  by  violation  of  the  Canons  or  otherwise,  or  if  any 
Clergyman,  while  sojourning  in  any  Diocese,  shall  misbehave  in  any 
of  these  respects,  the  Bishop,  upon  probable  cause,  may  admonish 
such  Clergyman,  and  forbid  him  to  officiate  in  said  Diocese.  And 
if,  after  such  prohibition,  the  said  Clergyman  so  officiate,  the  Bishop 
shall  give  notice  to  all  the  Clergy  and  Congregations  in  said  Diocese, 
that  the  officiating  of  the  said  Clergyman  is,  under  any  and  all  cir- 
cumstances, prohibited;  and  like  notice  shall  be  given  to  the  Eccle- 
siastical Authority  of  the  Diocese  to  which  the  said  Clergyman 
belongs.  And  such  prohibition  shall  continue  in  force,  until  the 
Bishop  of  the  first  named  Diocese  be  satisfied  of  the  innocence  of 
the  said  Clergyman,  or  until  he  be  acquitted  on  trial. 


TITLE  III.—  Of  Discipline.  43 

§  3.  The  provisions  of  the  last  Section  shall  apply  to  Clergymen      Canon  II. 

ordained  in  foreign  countries  by  Bishops  in  communion  with  this        '    Y 

,  .  .  P     ,  i  -i  •  •         i     11      Case  of  Cler- 

Church:  Provided,  that  in  such  case  notice  ot  the  prohibition  shall  gymen  ordain- 

be  given  to  the  Bishop  under   whose  jurisdiction  the  Clergyman  ^ulnntrigS°reign 

shall  appear  to  have  last  been,  and  also  to  all  the  Bishops  exercising 

jurisdiction  in  this  Church. 


CANON    III. 

OF   RENUNCIATION   OF   THE   MINISTRY. 

§  1.  If  any  Minister  of  this  Church,  against  whom  there  is  no  Where  no 
Ecclesiastical  proceeding  instituted,  shall  declare,  in  writing,  to  the  proceeding  is 
Ecclesiastical  Authority  to  which  he  belongs,  his  renunciation  of 
the  Ministry,  and  his  design  not  to  officiate  in  future  in  any  of  the 
offices  thereof,  said  Ecclesiastical  Authority  shall  record  the  decla- 
ration so  made.  The  Bishop  shall  then  depose  him  from  the  Min- 
istry, and  pronounce  and  record  in  the  presence  of  two  or  more 
Clergymen,  that  the  person  so  declaring  has  been  deposed  from  the 
Ministry  of  this  Church;  and  if  there  be  no  Bishop  in  such  Diocese, 
the  same  sentence  may  be  pronounced  by  the  Bishop  of  any  other 
Diocese  invited  by  the  Standing  Committee  to  attend  for  that 
purpose. 

§  2.  If  the  Ecclesiastical  Authority,  to  whom  such  declaration        Suspension 
renouncing  the  Ministry  is  made,  shall  have  reason  to  believe  that 
the  person  has  acted   unadvisedly  and  hastily,  all  action  thereupon 
may  be  forborne  for  the  space  of  not  more  than  six  months,  during 
which  time  the  person  may  withdraw  his  application. 

§  3.  If  the  Bishop  shall  have  ground  to  suppose  the  person  to  be  Where  lia- 
liable  to  presentment  for  any  canonical  offence,  he  may,  in  his  dis-  ^  ^,,,5°  pre" 
cretion,  and  with  the  consent  of  the  Standing  Committee,  proceed 
to  have  the  applicant  put  upon  his  trial,  notwithstanding  his  having 
made  the  aforesaid  declaration;  and  the  same  discretion  is  allowed 
to  the  Standing  Committee,  in  case  the  Diocese  should  be  without 
a  Bishop. 


44 


Canon  III. 


TITLE  III.—  Of  Discipline. 

§  4.  In  the  case  of  deposition  from  the  Ministry,  as  above  pro- 
vided for,  the  Bishop  shall  give  notice  thereof  to  the  Ecclesiastical 


position.        "  Authority  of  every  Diocese  of  this  Church. 


CANON    IV. 


OF   THE  ABANDONMENT   OF  THE   COMMUNION   OF   THIS   CHURCH 
BY   A   PRESBYTER   OR   DEACON. 

Abandon-      §  1-  If  any  Presbyter  or  Deacon  shall,  without  availing  himself 

ment    without  0f  the  provisions  of  Canon  III.  of  this  Title,  abandon  the  Com- 
renunciation.  .  „    ,  .     __         ,       .  ,        .  ..  n    -i       i 

munion  ot  this  Church,  either  by  an  open  renunciation  of  the  doc- 
trine, discipline,  and  worship  of  this  Church,  or  by  a  formal 
admission  into  any  religious  body  not  in  communion  with  the  same, 
it  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  Standing  Committee  of  the  Diocese  to 
make  certificate  of  the  fact  to  the  Bishop  of  the  Diocese,  or,  if 
there  be  no  Bishop,  to  the  Bishop  of  an  adjacent  Diocese;  which 
certificate  shall  be  recorded,  and  shall  be  taken  and  deemed  by  the 
Ecclesiastical  Authority  as  equivalent  to  a  renunciation  of  the  Min- 
istry by  the  Minister  himself.  Notice  shall  then  be  given  to  the 
said  Minister,  by  the  said  Bishop  receiving  the  certificate,  that  unless 
he  shall,  within  six  months  after  being  notified,  make  declaration 
that  the  facts  alleged  in  said  certificate  are  false,  he  will  be  deposed 
from  the  Ministry  of  this  Church. 

§  2.  And  if  such  declaration  be  not  made  within  six  months  as 
aforesaid,  the  Bishop  shall  depose  said  Minister  from  the  Ministry, 
and  pronounce  and  record,  in  the  presence  of  two  or  more  Pres- 
byters, that  he  has  been  so  deposed. 

Provided,  nevertheless,  that  if  the  Minister  so  renouncing  shall 
transmit  to  the  Bishop  receiving  the  certificate,  a  retraction  of  the 
acts  or  declarations  constituting  his  offence,  the  Bishop  may,  at  his 
discretion,  abstain  from  any  further  proceedings. 


Certificate. 


Notice. 


Deposition. 


Proviso. 


TITLE  III.—  Of  Discipline.  45 

Canon  V. 

CANON   V.  * — v—' 

OF   A   CLERGYMAN   ABSENTING   HIMSELF   FROM   HIS   DIOCESE. 

When  a   Clergyman  has  been  absent  from  the  Diocese  to  which     May  be  sus- 
he  belongs,  during  two  years,  without  reasons  satisfactory  to  the  Pended- 
Bishop  thereof,  he  shall  be  required  by  the  Bishop  to  declare  the 
cause  or  causes  thereof  in  writing;  and  if  he  refuse  to  give  his 
reasons,  or  if  they  be  deemed  insufficient  by  the  Bishop,  the  Bishop 
may,  with  the  advice  and  consent  of  the  Clerical  Members  of  the 
Standing  Committee,  suspend  him  from  the  Ministry;  which  sus-     How  long, 
pension   shall  continue    until  he  shall  give,  in    writing,  sufficient 
reasons  for  his  absence,  or  until  he  shall  renew  his  residence  in  his 
Diocese,  or  until  he  shall  renounce  the  Ministry  according  to  Canon 
III.  of  this  Title.     In  the  case  of  such  suspension  as  above  pro-     Notjce  to  be 
vided  for,  the  Bishop  shall  give  notice  thereof  to  the  Ecclesiastical  given. 
Authority  of  every  Diocese  of  this  Church. 


CANON    YI. 


OF   THE   ABANDONMENT   OF  THE    COMMUNION   OF    THE   CHURCH 
BY   A   BISHOP. 

If  any  Bishop,  without  availing  himself  of   the  provisions  of         Abandon- 
§  1  of  Canon  III.  of  Title  II.,  abandon  the  Communion  of  this  men*  of  Som' 

mumon    by    a 

Church,  either  by  openly  renouncing  the  doctrine,  discipline  and  Bishop, 
worship  of  this  Church,  or  by  formally  uniting  himself  with  any 
religious  body  not  in  communion  with  the  same,  the  Standing  Com- 
mittee of  the  Diocese  shall  make  certificate  of  the  fact  to  the  senior 
Bishop,  which  certificate  shall  be  recorded,  and  shall  be  taken  and 
deemed  as  equivalent  to  a  renunciation  of  the  Ministry  by  the 
Bishop  himself. 

Notice  shall  then  be  given  to  said  Bishop  by  the  senior  Bishop     Notice  to  be 
receiving  the  certificate,  that  unless  he  shall,  within   six  months  given, 
after  being  notified,  make  declaration  that  the  facts  alleged  in  said 
certificate  are  false,  he  will  be  deposed  from  the  Ministry  of  this 
Church. 


46 


TITLE  III.—  Of  Discipline. 


Canon  VI. 


Deposition. 


Proviso. 


And  if  such  declaration  be  not  made  within  six  months  as  afore- 
said, the  senior  Bishop,  with  the  consent  of  the  majority  of  the 
House  of  Bishops,  shall  depose  from  the  Ministry  the  Bishop  so 
certified  as  abandoning,  and  shall  pronounce  and  record,  in  the 
presence  of  two  or  more  Bishops,  that  he  has  been  so  deposed. 

Provided,  nevertheless,  that  if  the  Bishop  so  certified  as  aban- 
doning, shall  transmit  to  the  senior  Bishop  a  retraction  of  the  acts 
or  declarations  constituting  his  offence,  the  Bishop  may,  at  his  dis- 
cretion, abstain  from  any  further  proceedings. 


CANON    VII. 


Charges  in 
writing. 


OF   THE   TRIAL   OF   A  BISHOr. 

Offences  for      §  1.  Any  Bishop  of  this  Church  may  be  presented  for  trial  on 

which  may  he  char2:es  for  the  following  offences,  viz:  (1.)  Crime  or  inimoralitv. 
tried.  n  .  .  . 

(2.)  Holding  and  teaching  publicly,  or  privately  and  advisedly,  any 

doctrine  contrary  to  that  held  by  the  Protestant  Episcopal  Church 

in  the  Confederate  States.     (3.)  Violation  of  the  Constitution  or 

Canons  of  the  General  Council.     (4.)  Violation  of  the  Constitution 

or  Canons  of  the  Diocese  to  which  he  belongs.      (5.)  Any  act 

which  involves  a  breach  of  his  Ordination  or  Consecration  vows. 

§  2.  (1.)  The  proceedings  shall  commence  by  charges  in  writing; 
and,  except  when  the  charge  is  holding  and  teaching  doctrine  con- 
trary to  that  held  by  this  Church,  shall  be  signed  by  either 

Five  male  Communicants  of  this  Church,  in  good  standing,  be- 
longing to  the  Diocese  of  the  accused,  of  whom  two  at  least  must 
be  Presbyters;  or, 

By  seven  male  Communicants  of  this  Church,  in  good  standing 
of  whom  two  at  least  shall  be  Presbyters,  and  three  of  which  seven 
shall  belong  to  the  Diocese  of  the  accused. 
Action  on      [2.]  Whenever  a  Bishop  of  this  Church  shall  have   reason  to 
rumours.  believe  that  there  are  in  circulation  rumours,  reports,  or  charges 

affecting  his  moral  or  religious  character,  he  may,  if  he  please, 
acting  in  conformity  with  the  written  advice  and  consent  of  any  two 
of  his  brother  Bishops  whom  he  may  select,  demand  of  the  Presid- 


TITLE  III.—  Of  Discipline.  47 

ing  Bishop  of  the  House  of  Bishops,  or  if  he  be  the  Bishop  affected  Canon  VII. 
by  such  rumours,  or  if  he  be  related  to  him  within  the  degrees  here-  ^""""v"""'^ 
inafter  mentioned,  then  to  the  Bishop  next  in  seniority  not  so 
related,  to  convene  a  Board  of  Inquiry  in  the  mode  hereinafter  set 
forth,  to  investigate  such  rumours,  reports,  and  charges,  and  to  pro- 
ceed, in  all  respects,  according  to  the  provisions  of  this  Canon,  as  if 
charges  had  been  formally  made  in  either  of  the  two  modes  first 
mentioned  in  this  section. 

[3.]  Whenever  charges  are  formally  made  in  either  of  the  modes  Lay  Advocate, 
first  above  mentioned,  the  accusers  may,  if  they  choose,  select  a 
Lay  Communicant  of  this  Church,  of  the  profession  of  the  law,  to 
act  as  their  adviser,  advocate  and  agent,  in  preparing  the  accusation, 
proofs,  etc.,  until  such  time  as  a  Board  of  Inquiry  is  convened  in 
such   manner  as  is  hereinafter  provided  for;  or  they  may  prepare 

such  charges  themselves,  without  regard  to  anv  particular  form;       Charges  to 

,    .        .  ,  ,  ,       „  .  ,  r.      t        •  i    be  certified, 

and,  in  either  case,  the  grounds  ot  accusation  must  be  set  forth  with 

reasonable  certainty  of  time,  place  and  circumstance. 

§  3.  The  charges,  having  been  prepared  in  either  of  the  modes     To  whom  de- 
first   above  mentioned,  shall  then    be  delivered    to  the    Presiding  Uvero(1- 
Bishop  of  this  Church,  if  he  be  not  the  accused,  nor  related  to  the 
accused    in  any    degree  mentioned    hereinafter  in    this  Canon;  in 
either  of  which   cases,  the  charges  shall  be  delivered  to  the  next 
Bishop  in  seniority  not  so  related. 

^  4.   A  Board  for  making  a  preliminary  inquiry  into  charges  thus     Board  of  In- 
preferred,  shall  be  constituted  as  follows,  whenever  such  Board  shall  cluirv' 
be  necessary,  viz : 

[1.]  The  Presiding  Bishop,  or  senior  Bishop,  as  the  case  may  be,  How  consti- 
to  whom  such  charges  are  delivered,  shall  take  the  list  of  Deputies 
to  the  last  General  Council  that  was  held  before  such  charges  were 
presented,  and  from  that  list  shall  choose  by  lot  two  Presbyters  and 
two  Laymen  from  the  deputation  of  the  Diocese  of  the  accused,  and 
two  Presbyters  and  two  Laymen  from  each  of  the  respective  depu- 
tations of  the  three  Dioceses  adjoining  that  of  the  accused;  and  if 
there  be  not  three  adjoining,  of  the  three  nearest  thereto;  and  if 
more  than  three  Dioceses  adjoin  that  of  the  accused,  those  three 
that  have  the  largest  number  of  canonically-resident  Presbyters  in 
them  shall  be  accounted  adjoining,  for  the  purposes  of  this  Canon; 
and  the  sixteen  individuals  thus  selected  by  lot  shall  constitute  the 
Board  of  Inquiry,  a  majority  of  whom  shall  form  a  quorum  for 
doin»-  business. 


48  TITLE  III.—  Of  Discipline. 

Canon  VII.        [2.]  The  Presiding  Bishop,  or  next  in  seniority  as  the  case  may 

**-    v— "^     be,  immediately  after  thus  selecting  by  lot  the  Board  of  Inquiry, 

Notice  to  shall  give  notice  thereof  to  each  member  of  said  Board,  and  direct 

him  to  attend  at  a  time  and  place  designated  by  him,  and  organize 

the  Board;  and  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  each  member  so  to  attend. 

Place    of  The  place  must  be  within  the  Diocese  of  the  accused.     The  Pre- 

Meeting.  .  -,->. 

siding  Bishop   shall,  at  the  same  time,  send  a  copy  of  the  charges 

charges.  to  the  senior  Presbyter  of  those  thus  selected  by  lot  from  the  four 

Dioceses. 

Organization  [3.]  On  assembling,  the  Board  shall  organize  by  choosing  from 
among  themselves  a  President  and  Secretary,  and  shall  also  appoint 
a  Church  Advocate,  who  must  be  a  Lay  Communicant  of  this 
Church,  and  of  the  profession  of  the  law,  and  who  thenceforward 
shall,  in  all  stages  of  the  proceedings,  if  a  trial  be  ordered,  repre- 
sent the  Church,  and  be  the  party  on  the  one  hand,  while  the  ac- 

Sittings  pri-  cused  is  the  party  on  the  other.  The  sittings  of  the  Board  shall  be 
private;  the  Church  Advocate  shall  not  attend  as  prosecuting 
counsel,  but  shall  be  at  all  times  at  hand  and  in  readiness  to  give 
his  advice  in  all  questions  submitted  to  him  by  the  Board. 

Duty  of  the  [4.]  In  conducting  the  investigation,  the  Board  shall  hear  the 
accusations  and  such  proof  as  the  accusers  may  produce,  and  shall 
determine  whether,  upon  matters  of  law  and  of  fact,  as  presented  to 
them,  there  is  sufficient  ground  to  put  the  accused  Bishop  upon  his 
trial;  and  in  such  investigation,  as  well  as  in  all  cases  of  trial  by  an 
Ecclesiastical  Court  now  authorized,  or  hereafter  to  be  authorized, 
by  the  Constitution  or  Canons  of  the  General  Council,  the  laws  of 
the  State  in  which  such  investigation  or  trial  is  had,  so  far  as  they 

Law  of  evi-  relate  to  the  law  of  evidence,  shall  be  adopted  and  taken  as  the 
rules  by  which  the  said  Board  or  Court  shall  be  governed.  If  a 
majority  of  the  Board  present  on  such  investigation  shall  be  of 
opinion  that  there  are  sufficient  grounds  to  put  the  accused  Bishop 
upon  his  trial,  they  shall  direct  the  Church  Advocate  to  prepare  a 

Presentment,  presentment,  to  be  signed  by  such  of  the  Board  as  agree  thereto; 
and  to  that  end,  shall  place  in  his  hands  all  the  charges,  together 
with  the  testimony  that  has  been  laid  before  the  Board. 

To  whom  to  [5-]  The  Board  shall  then  direct  the  Church  Advocate  to  trans- 
be  sent.  m^  t0  thg  Bishop  from  whom  they  received  the  charges,  the  pre- 
sentment thus  signed;  and  shall  cause  him  also,  without  delay,  to 
send  to  the  accused  Bishop  a  copy  of  the  same,  certified  by  the 
Church  Advocate  to  be  correct. 


TITLE  III.—  Of  Discipline.  49 

[6.]  If  a  majority  of  the  Board  present  shall  be  of  opinion  that    Canon  VII. 
there  is  not  sufficient  ground  to  put  the  accused  Bishop  upon  his     v*"" ~v-~"^ 
trial,  in  such   case,  the  charges,  together  with  a  certificate  of  the  present. 
President  of  the  Board  of  its  refusal  to  make  a  presentment,  shall 
be  sent  to  the  Secretary  of  the  House  of  Bishops,  to  be  deposited 
among   the  archives   of  that  House.     And   no  proceedings   shall     Bar  to  future 
thereafter  be  had  by  way  of  presentment  on  such  charges,  except  Presen  men  ■ 
upon  the  affidavit  of  a  respectable  Communicant  of  the  Church,  of     Exception. 
the  discovery  of  new  testimony  as  to  the  facts  charged,  and  setting 
forth  what  such  testimony  is. 

[7.]  No  presentment  shall  be  found  in  any  case,  unless  the  alleged        Limitation 
offence  shall  have  been  committed  within  five  years  next  before  the 
day  on  which  the  charges  were  delivered  to  the  Presiding  or  senior 
Bishop.     But  if  the  accused    shall    have    been  convicted    of  the 
alleged  offence  in   a  State   court,  notwithstanding  five  years  may        Conviction 
have  elapsed  since  its  commission,  a  presentment  may  be  founded  }?     ta     Stato 
on  charges  delivered  to  the  Presiding  or  senior  Bishop  at  any  time 
within  one  year  after  such  conviction. 

§  5.  [1.]  When  a  presentment  has  been  made  by  the  Board  of  Notice  to  ac- 
Inquiry,  or  a  majority  thereof,  to  the  Bishop  from  whom  they  re-  segment!  ^ 
ceived  the  charges,  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  such  Bishop  forthwith  to 
give  to  the  accused  written  notice  to  attend,  at  some  place  not  more 
than  one  hundred  miles  from  the  place  of  residence  of  the  accused 
Bishop,  and  at  some  time  not  less  than  twenty  days  after  the  time 
of  serving  such  notice,  either  personally,  or  by  some  agent  author- 
ized by  him  in  writing  to  act  for  him  in  the  premises,  for  the  pur- 
pose of  selecting  the  Bishops  who  shall  form  the  Court  for  the  trial 
of  the  said  accused  Bishop  upon  the  said  presentment.     He  shall  And     to 

also  give  notice  to  the  Church  Advocate  of  the  time  and  place  ap-  cate*C 
pointed  for  such  selection. 

[2.]  At  the  time  and  place  appointed  in  the  notices,  the  Bishop  Formation  of 
who  has  given  the  notices  shall  attend;  and,  in  the  presence  of  the 
accused  Bishop,  or  of  his  agent  authorized  as  aforesaid,  and  also  in 
the  presence  of  the  Church  Advocate,  or  of  such  person  or  persons 
as  may  attend  in  his  behalf,  or,  if  no  person  shall  attend  on  behalf 
of  one  or  both,  of  two  Presbyters  named  by  himself,  the  said  Bishop 
shall  cause  to  be  placed  in  a  vessel  the  names  of  all  the  Bishops  of 
this  Church  entitled  to  seats  in  the  House  of  Bishops,  then  being 
within  the  territory  of  the  Confederate  States,  except  the  accused 
and  those  Bishops  who  may  be  related  to  him  either  by  consan- 
7 


50 


TITLE  III.—  Of  Discipline. 


drawn. 


five. 


Notice 
Members 
Court. 


Time. 


Place. 


to 
of 


Canon  VII.  guinity  or  affinity,  in  the  direct  ascending  or  descending  line,  or  as 
^"~^s~—'  brother,  uncle,  or  nephew.  He  shall  then  cause  seven  of  the  said 
Seven  to  be  names  to  be  drawn.  The  names  so  drawn  shall  be  entered  upon  a 
list  as  they  are  drawn,  and  the  accused  or  his  agent  may  strike  off 
the  list  one  name,  and  the  said  Church  Advocate  or  his  agent  an- 
other name,  and  so  as  to  reduce  the  number  to  five.  If  it  shall 
happen  that  either  party  shall  neglect  or  refuse  to  strike,  then  the 
Reduced  to  Bishop  who  has  given  the  notices  shall  reduce  the  number  to  five, 
by  striking  off  so  many  of  the  last  drawn  names  as  will  reduce  the 
list  to  that  number.  The  five  Bishops  whose  names  remain,  or  a 
majority  of  them,  when  assembled,  shall  constitute  the  Court  for 
the  trial  of  the  accused  upon  the  presentment. 

[8.]  The  Court  having  been  thus  constituted,  the  Bishop  to  whom 
the  presentment  was  made  shall  immediately  communicate  to  each 
Bishop  who  has  thus  been  by  lot  designated  as  one  of  the  triers,  the 
fact  that  he  is  a  member  of  the  Court.  He  shall  also  appoint  a  time 
and  place  for  the  assembling  of  the  Court.  The  time  shall  not  be 
less  than  two  nor  more  than  six  calendar  months  from  the  day  on 
which  the  notice  should  arrive  at  the  most  distant  Diocese,  in  the 
ordinary  course  of  the  public  mail.  The  place  shall  be  within  the 
Diocese  or  Missionary  field  of  the  accused  Bishop,  unless  where  the 
same  may  be  of  such  difficult  access,  in  the  judgment  of  the  Pre- 
siding or  senior  Bishop,  that  reasonable  convenience  may  require 
the  appointment  of  another  location.  And  the  said  senior  Bishop 
Certified  Co-  shall  cause  the  Church  Advocate  to  send  certified  copies  of  the  said 
pies"  presentment  to  all  the  Bishops  who  constitute  the  Court. 

[4.]  The  Bishop   to  whom  the  presentment  has  been  made  shall 
Summons  to  also  immediately  communicate  to  the  accused  the  names  of  the  mem- 
accused,  kgj-g  0f  t]je  (Jourt^  anci  inform  him  of  the  time  and  place  appointed 
for  its  meeting,  and  summon  him  then  and  there  to  appear  and 
answer.     He  or  any  other  Bishop  of  this  Church  having  charge  of 
a  Diocese,  shall  have  power,  until  the  Court  assembles,  upon  the 
And  to  wit-  application  of  either  the  Church  Advocate  or  the  accused,  to  issue 
nesses.  a  summons  for  witnesses. 

of  §  6.  The  Bishops  who  constitute  the  Court,  or  a  majority  of  them, 
having  assembled  according  to  the  notice  given  them,  which  notice 
it  is  hereby  made  their  duty  to  obey,  shall  proceed  as  follows,  viz : 
President  [!•]  They  shall  elect  a  President  out  of  their  own  number,  and 
appoint  a  Presbyter  of  the  Church  as  Clerk,  and  if  necessary, 
another  Presbyter  as  Assistant  Clerk;  and  when  thus  organized,  the 


Course 
proceeding, 


and  Clerk. 


TITLE  III.—  Of  Discipline.  51 

President  shall  direct  the  Clerk  to  call  the  names  of  the  Church    Canon  VII. 

Advocate  and  the  accused;  and  if  both  appear,  he  shall  then  cause     v"-""~v ' 

the  Clerk  to  read  the  presentment  which  was  delivered  to  the  Pre-     Reading    of 
siding  or  senior  Bishop,  whose  duty  it  is  hereby  made  to  deliver  the  Presentment- 
same  to  the  Court  upon  its  organization. 

[2.]  The  accused  shall  then  be  called  upon  by  the  Court  to  say  Call  to  plead, 
whether  he  is  guilty  or  not  guilty  of  the  offence  or  offences  charged 
against  him,  and  his  plea  shall  be  duly  recorded;  and  on  his  neglect 
or  refusal  to  plead,  the  plea  of  not  guilty  shall  be  entered  for  him, 
and  the  trial  shall  proceed:  Provided,  that,  for  sufficient  cause,  the  Provisos. 
Court  may  adjourn  from  time  to  time;  and  Provided  also,  that  the 
accused  shall,  at  all  times  during  the  trial,  have  liberty  to  be  pres- 
ent, and  in  due  time  and  order  produce  his  testimony,  and  to  make 
his  defence. 

[3.]  If  the  accused  neglect  or  refuse  to  appear  in  person,  accord-     Non-Appear- 
ing to  the  notice  served  on  him  as  aforesaid,  except  for  some  reason-  ance' 
able    cause    to   be    allowed    by  the    Court,   they    shall  proceed    to 
pronounce    him  in    contumacy,  and    notify  him   that  sentence    of     Contumacy, 
suspension  or  degradation  will  be   pronounced  against  him  by  the 
Court  at  the  expiration  of  three  months,  unless  within  that  time  he  Three  months' 
tender  himself  ready,  and  accordingly  appear  to  take  his  trial  on  the  £race- 
presentment.     But  if  the  accused   shall  not  tender  himself  before 
the  expiration  of  the  said  three  months,  sentence  of  suspension  or 
degradation  from  the  Ministry  may  be  pronounced  against  him  by 
the  Court. 

[4.]  The  accused  being  present,  and  the  trial  proceeding,  it  shall    Common  Law 
be  conducted  according  to  the  principles  of  the  Common  Law,  as  ceding.0  Pr° 
the  same  are  generally. administered  in  the  Confederate  States;  nor      • 
shall  any  testimony  be  received  at  the  trial,  except  from  witnesses 
who  have  signed  a  declaration  in  the  following  words,  to  be  read 
aloud  before  the  witness  testifies,  and  to  be  filed  with  the  records  of 
the  Court: 

"A.  B.,  a  witness  summoned  to  testify  on  the  trial  of  a  presentment  against       Declaration 

the  Right  Rev. ,  a  Bishop  of  the  Protestant  Episcopal  Church  in  the  of  witness. 

Confederate  States,  now  pending,  do  most  solemnly  call  God  to  witness  that 
the  evidence  I  am  about  to  give  shall  be  the  truth,  the  whole  truth,  and 
nothing  but  the  truth;  so  help  me  God!" 

And  if  it  be  necessary  to  take  the  testimony  of  an  absent  witness     Deposition, 
on  a  commission,   such  testimony  shall  be  preceded  by  a  similar 


52  TITLE  III.—  Of  Discipline. 

Canon  VII.    written  declaration  of  the  witness,  which  shall  be  filed  and  trans- 
ls"""~v—"/    mitted  with  his  or  her  deposition  to  the  Court.     The  testimony  of 
each  witness  shall  be  reduced  to  writing.     And  in  case  there  is 
ground  to  suppose  that  the  attendance  of  any  witness  on  the  trial 
cannot  be  obtained,  it  shall  be  lawful  for  either  party  to  apply  to  the 
Court  if  in   session,  or  if  not,  to   any  member  thereof,  who  shall 
Commissary,  thereupon  appoint  a  commissary  to  take  the  deposition  of  such  wit- 
ness; and  such  party  so  desiring  to  take  the  deposition,  shall  give  to 
the  other  party  reasonable  notice  of  the  time  and  place  of  taking 
such  deposition,  accompanying  such  notice  with  the  interrogatories 
to  be  propounded  to  the  witness;  whereupon  it  shall  be  lawful  for 
the   other  party,    within  six    days  after  such  notice,  to  propound 
Cross-Exami-  cross-interrogatories ;  and  such  interrogatories  and  cross-interroga- 
nation.  tories,  if  any  be  propounded,  shall  be  sent  to  the  commissary,  who 

shall  thereupon  proceed  to  take  the  testimony  of  such  witness,  upon 
oath  or  affirmation,  and  transmit  it  under  seal  to  the  Court.     But  no 
On    what  deposition  shall  be  read  at  the  trial,  unless  the  Court  have  reason- 
positions  to  be  akle  assurance  that  the  attendance  of  the  witness  cannot  be  pro- 
read.  cured,  or  unless  both  parties  shall  consent  that  it  may  be  read. 

Proviso.         Provided,  that  in  any  Diocese  in  which  the  civil  government  has 
authorized  the  Ecclesiastical  Courts  thereinto  issue  summons  for 
witnesses,  or  to  administer  an  oath,  the  Court  shall  act  in  conformity 
to  such  laws. 
Service   of      [5.]  All  notices  and  papers  may  be  served  by  a  summoner  or 
papers3       ^  summoners,  to  be  appointed  by  the  Court  when  the  same  is  in 
session,  or  by  a  member  thereof;  and  the  certificate  of  any  such 
summoner  shall  be  evidence  of  the  due  service  of  a  notice  or  paper. 
,      In  case  of  service  by  any  other  person,  the  fact  may  be  proved  by 
Certificate  of  the  affidavit  of  such  person.     The  delivery  of  a  written  notice  or 
service.  paper  to  the  accused  party,  or  to  the  Church   Advocate,  or  leaving 

it,  or  a  copy  thereof,  at  the  residence,  or  last  known  residence,  of 
either,  shall  be  deemed  sufficient  service  of  such  notice  or  paper,  on 
the  Church  Advocate  and  accused  respectively.  If  the  person  to 
be  served  with  any  notice  or  paper  shall  have  left  the  Confederate 
States,  it  shall  be  a  sufficient  service  thereof  to  leave  a  copy  of  such 
notice  or  paper  at  his  last  place  of  abode  within  the  Confederate 
States,  sixty  days  before  the  day  on  which  the  appearance,  or  other 
act  required  by  the  said  notice  or  paper,  is  to  be  performed. 
Accused  may  [6.]  The  accused  party  may,  if  he  think  proper,  have  the  aid  of 
counsel;  and  if  he  should  choose  to  have  more  than  one  counsel, 


TITLE  III.—  Of  Discipline.  53 

the  Church  Advocate  may  have  assistant  advocates,  to  he  named  by    Canon  VII. 

the  accusers;  but  in  every  case  the  Court  may  regulate  the  number    ^~"v~~— -^ 

of  counsel  who  shall  address  the  Court  or  examine  witnesses.     The 

Church  Advocate  shall  be  considered  the  party  on  one  side,  and  the       _         ,   . 

r       J  Counsel    to 

accused  on  the  other.     All  counsel  must  be  Communicants  of  the  be    Communi- 
Church.  cants- 

[7.]  The  Court,  having  fully  heard  the  allegations  and  proofs  of  Opinion  of 
the  parties,  and  deliberately  considered  the  same,  after  the  parties  our ' 
have  withdrawn,  shall  declare  respectively,  whether,  in  their  opinion, 
the  accused  is  guilty  or  not  guilty  of  each  particular  charge  and 
specifications  contained  in  the  presentment,  in  the  order  in  which 
they  are  set  forth ;  and  the  accused  shall  be  considered  as  not  guilty 
of  every  charge  and  specification  of  which  he  shall  not  be  pro- 
nounced guilty  by  a  majority  of  the  members  of  the  Court. 

[8.]  The  decision  of  the  Court  as  to  all  the  charges  and  specifi-  Decision, 
cations  of  which  a  majority  of  the  members  of  the  Court  have  found 
him  guilty,  shall  be  reduced  to  writing,  and  signed  by  those  who 
assent  to  it;  and  a  decision  pronouncing  him  not  guilty  of  all  those 
charges  and  specifications  of  which  a  majority  shall  not  have  pro- 
nounced him  guilty,  shall  also  be  drawn  up,  and  signed  by  those 
who  assent  to  it;  and  the  decision  thus  signed  shall  be  regarded  as 
the  judgment  of  the  Court,  and  shall  be  pronounced  in  the  pres- 
ence of  the  parties,  if  they  shall  think  proper  to  attend. 

[9.]  If  the  accused  shall  be  found  guilty  of  any  charge  or  speci-  Accused  to 
fication,  the  Court  shall  proceed  to  ask  him  whether  he  has  anything 
to  say  before  the  sentence  is  passed,  and  may,  in  their  discretion, 
give  him  time  to  prepare  what  he  wishes  to  say,  and  appoint  a  time 
for  passing  the  sentence;  and  before  passing  sentence,  the  Court 
may  adjourn  from  time  to  time,  and  give  the  accused  reasonable 
opportunity  of  showing  cause  to  induce  a  belief  that  justice  has  not 
been  done,  or  that  he  has  discovered  new  testimony;  and  the  Court,  New  trial, 
or  a  majority  of  its  members,  may,  according  to  a  sound  discretion, 
grant  him  a  new  trial.  Before  passing  sentence,  the  accused  shall 
always  have  the  opportunity  of  being  heard,  if  he  have  aught  to 
say  in  excuse  or  palliation. 

[10.]  The  accused  having  been  heard,  or  not  desiring  to  be  heard,     Sentence. 
the  sentence  of  the  Court  shall  then  be  pronounced,  and  shall  be 
cither  admonition,  suspension  as  defined  by  the  existing  Canons  of 
this  Church,  or  degradation,  as  the  offence  or  offences  adjudged  to 
be  proved  shall  seem  to  deserve.     It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  Court, 


54  TITLE  III.—  Of  Discipline. 

Canon  VII.    whenever  sentence  has  been  pronounced,  whether  it  he  upon  a  trial, 

^~~y~ ""*     or  for  contumacy,  to  communicate  such  sentence  to  the  Ecclesiasti- 

Sentence  to  cal  Authority  of  every  Diocese  of  this  Church;  and  it  shall  be  the 
cated.  "  duty  of  such  Authority  to  cause  such  sentence  to  be  made  known  to 

every  Clergyman  under  his  jurisdiction. 

Record.  [H-]  Every  Court  shall  keep  a  full  record  of  its  proceedings,  in- 

cluding the  whole  evidence  given  before  it.  Should  any  Court 
refuse  to  insert  in  its  record  a  statement  of  any  testimony  which  has 
been  received,  or  of  any  decision  which  the  Court  has  made,  or  of 
any  fact  which  has  occurred  in  Court,  or  any  paper  which  either 
party  has  produced,  it  shall  be  the  right  of  either  party  to  file  an 

Exceptions,  exception  in  writing,  containing  a  statement  of  such  evidence,  de- 
cision or  fact,  or  referring  to  or  describing  such  paper,  which  paper 
shall  also  be  filed  with  the  exception.  All  exceptions  and  papers 
so  filed  shall  become  parts  of  the  record. 
How  kept  [12.]  Such  records  shall  be  kept  by  the  Clerk,  and  inserted  in  a 
an  a  es  ec .  j^g^  ^  jje  attested  by  the  signatures  of  the  President  and  Clerk. 
Every  such  book,  and  all  papers  connected  with  any  trial,  shall  be 
deposited  with  the  Registrar  of  the  General  Council.  Such  books 
and  papers  shall  be  open  to  the  inspection  of  every  member  of  this 
Church. 

Lay  advisers.  P-3.]  Every  Court,  constituted  under  the  authority  of  this  Canon, 
may  be  attended  by  one  or  more  Lay  advisers,  who  shall  be  Com- 
municants of  this  Church,  and  of  the  profession  of  the  law.  Such 
advisers  may  be  present  at  all  the  proceedings  of  the  Court,  but 
they  shall  have  no  vote  in  any  case  whatever;  it  shall  be  their  duty 
to  give  in  person  to  the  Court  an  opinion  on  any  question  not  theo- 
logical, upon  which  the  Court,  or  any  member  thereof,  or  either 
party,  shall  desire  an  opinion.  If  a  dispute  shall  arise  whether  any 
question  be  or  be  not  theological,  it  shall  be  decided  by  the  Court 
by  a  majority  of  votes.  The  Court  may  always,  by  unanimous  con- 
sent, appoint  an  adviser  or  advisers.  If  they  are  not  unanimous, 
each  member  of  the  Court  may  name  a  candidate ;  if  not  more  than 
three  are  named,  they  all  shall  be  advisers;  if  more  than  three  are 
named,  the  Court  shall  reduce  them  to  three  by  lot. 

Presentment      §  7.     [1.]  Any    Bishop   of  this   Church  may   be  presented  for 

for    erroneous  holding;  and  teaching  doctrine  inconsistent  with  that  of  this  Church, 

doctrine.  o  ° 

by  any  Bishop  in  communion  with  this  Church,  and  not  under  sus- 
pension or  degradation.  No  Bishop  shall  be  presented  in  any  other 
mode  for  this  offence ;  and  it  shall  not  be  lawful  for  two  or  more 


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55 


To  whom  ad- 
dressed. 


Court. 


Number   to 
convict. 


persons  to  unite  in  any  such  presentment.     The  Bishop  making     Canon  VII. 
such  presentment  shall  appoint  a  Church  Advocate.  v*"    v"—' 

[2.]  Every  presentment  for  alleged  erroneous  doctrine  shall  be 
signed  by  the  person  making  it,  and  shall  be  addressed  to  the 
Bishops  of  the  Protestant  Episcopal  Church  in  the  Confederate 
States,  and  delivered  to  the  senior  Bishop  entitled  to  a  seat  in  the 
House  of  Bishops,  and  not  being  the  accused  or  the  accuser,  whose 
duty  it  shall  be  to  convene  a  Court  for  the  trial  of  the  accused. 
The  Court  shall  be  composed  of  all  the  Bishops  entitled  to  seats  in 
the  House  of  Bishops,  except  the  accuser  and  the  accused.  Three- 
fourths  of  such  Bishops  shall  constitute  a  quorum;  but  the  consent 
of  two-thirds  of  all  the  Bishops  entitled  to  seats  in  the  House  of 
Bishops  shall  be  necessary  to  a  conviction. 

§  8.     [1.]  If  charges  be  preferred  against  a  Missionary  Bishop,  Charges 

who  is  not  a  Diocesan,  such  Missionary  Bishop  shall  be  required  by  a»ai,ns*   .  ?Ils" 
\  •/  x  i  j  sion  ry  Bishop. 

the  Presiding  or  senior  Bishop  to  name  some  one  of  the  three 
Dioceses  nearest  to  his  District  or  Missionary  field;  and  such  selec- 
tion having  been  made,  the  proceedings  shall  then  be  precisely  such 
as,  under  this  Canon,  they  would  be  were  he  the  Diocesan  of  the 
Diocese  named  by  him.  Should  the  Missionary  Bishop  refuse  to 
name  a  Diocese,  then  the  Presiding  Bishop  may  name  any  one  of 
the  three  above  designated,  aud  the  effect  shall  be  the  same  as  if 
the  nomination  had  been  made  by  the  accused  Missionary  Bishop. 

[2.]  If  charges  be  preferred  against  a  Bishop  having  no  jurisdic-  Bishop  with- 
tion,  he  shall  be  proceeded  against  precisely  as  if  he  were  the  ^  Junsdlc- 
Diocesau  of  the  Diocese  in  which  he  has  his  civil  residence. 


CANON  VIII. 


OF   SENTENCES. 

§  1.  Whenever  the  penalty  of  suspension  shall  be  inflicted  on  a     Suspension. 
Bishop,  Priest  or  Deacon  in  this  Church,  the  sentence  shall  specify 
on  what  terms,  or  at  what  time,  said  penalty  shall  cease. 

§  2.  [1.]  When  any  Minister  is  degraded  from  the  Holy  Minis-     Degradation, 
try,  he  is  degraded  therefrom  entirely,  aud  not  from  a  higher  to  a 
lower  Order  of  the  same.     Deposition,  displacing,  and  all  like  ex- 


56  TITLE  III.—  Of  Discipline. 


Canon  IX.     pressions,  arc  the  same  as  degradation.     No  degraded  Minister  shall 
^"~"v~~^     be  restored  to  the  Ministry. 

[2.]  Whenever  a  Clergyman  shall  be  degraded,  the  Bishop  who 
gradation    °  *~  pronounces  sentence  shall,   without   delay,  give    notice  thereof  to 
every  Minister  and  Vestry  in  the  Diocese. 


CANON  IX. 

OF  THE  REMISSION  OR  MODIFICATION  OF  JUDICIAL  SENTENCES. 

Remission.        The  Bishops  of  this  Church,  who  are  entitled  to  seats  in  the 
House  of  Bishops,  may  altogether  remit  and  terminate  any  judicial 
sentence  which  may  have  been  imposed,  or  may  hereafter  be  im- 
posed,  by  Bishops  acting  collectively  as  a   judicial  tribunal;    or 
Modification,  modify  the  same  so  far  as  to  designate  a  precise  period  of  time,  or 
other  specific  contingency,  on  the  occurrence  of  which  such  sen- 
tence   shall  utterly   cease,  and   be  of  no    further  force    or  effect. 
Provided,  that   no  such  remission  or  modification   shall  be  made 
except  at  a  meeting  of  the  House  of  Bishops,  during  the  session  of 
At  General  some  General  Council,  or  at  a  special  meeting  of  the  said  Bishops, 
Council,       or  wj1jcj1  g^jj  j^  conYened  by  the  Presiding  Bishop  on  the  application 
ing.  of  any  five  Bishops;  three  months'  notice,  in  writing,  of  the  time, 

place  and  object  of  the  meeting,  being  given  personally  to  each 
Bishop,  or  left  at  his  usual  place  of  abode.     Provided,  also,  that 
Majority  as-  sucn  remission  or  modification  be  assented  to  by  a  number  of  said 
sen  ting.  Bishops  not  less  than  a  majority  of  the  whole  number  entitled  at 

the  time  to  seats  in  the  House  of  Bishops;  and  provided,  that 
nothing  herein  shall  be  construed  to  repeal  or  alter  Canon  VIII.  of 
this  Title. 


CANON  X. 

REGULATIONS  RESPECTING  THE  LAITY. 

Removal      §  1.  A  Communicant  removing  from  one  Parish  to  another,  shall 
cants.  procure  from  the  Rector  (if  any)  of  the  Parish  of  his  last  residence, 


TITLE  III.—  Of  Discipline.  57 

or,  if  there  be  no  Rector,  from  one  of  the  Wardens,  a  certificate      Canon  X. 
stating  that  he  or  she  is  a  Communicant  in  good  standing;  and  the  y   - 

Rector  of  the  Parish  or  Congregation  to  which  he  or  she  removes 
shall  not  be  required  to  receive  him  or  her  as  a  Communicant  until 
such  letter  be  produced. 

§  2.  As  one  of  the  rubrics  of  this  Church  requires  that  every     Bishop  to  be 
Minister  repelling  from  the  Communion  shall  give  an  account  of  the  informed, 
same  to  the  Ordinary,  it  is  hereby  provided,  that,  information  of  the 
same  being  laid  before  the  Ordinary,  that  is  the  Bishop,  it  shall  not 
be  his  duty  to  institute  an  inquiry,  unless  there  be  a  complaint  made 
to  him  in  writing  by  the  repelled  party.     But  on  receiving  com- 
plaint, the  Bishop  shall  institute  an  inquiry,  as  may  be  directed  by       inquiry  on 
the  Canons  of  the  Diocese  in  which  the  event  has  taken  place;  and  comPlaint- 
the  notice,  given  as  above  by  the  Minister,  shall  be  a  sufiicient  pre- 
sentation of  the  party  repelled. 


TITLE  IV. 

OF    THE    ORGANIZED    BODIES    AND    OFFI- 
CERS   OF    THE    CHURCH. 


CANON  I. 

OF    THE   GENERAL    COUNCIL. 

Special  meet-  §  1.  [1.]  The  right  of  calling  special  meetings  of  the  General 
Council  shall  be  in  the  Bishops.  This  right  shall  be  exercised  by 
the  Presiding  Bishop,  or,  in  case  of  his  death,  by  the  Bishop  who, 
according  to  the  rules  of  the  House  of  Bishops,  is  to  preside  at  the 
next  General  Council:  Provided,  that  the  summons  shall  be  with 
the  consent,  or  on  the  requisition,  of  a  majority  of  the  Bishops, 
expressed  to  him  in  writing. 

Place.  [2.]  The  place  of  holding  any  Special  Council  shall  be  that  se- 

lected by  the  preceding  General  Council  for  the  meeting  of  the 
General  Council,  unless  circumstances  shall  render  a  meeting  at  such 
a  place  unsafe;  in  which  case,  the  Presiding  Bishop  may  appoint 
some  other  place. 

Same  Depu-  [3.]  The  Deputies  elected  to  the  preceding  General  Council  shall 
be  the  Deputies  at  such  Special  Council,  unless  in  those  cases  in 
which  other  Deputies  shall  have  been  chosen  in  the  mean  time  by 
any  of  the  Diocesan  Councils,  and  then  such  other  Deputies  shall 
represent  in  the  Special  Council  the  Church  of  the  Diocese  in 
which  they  have  been  chosen. 

Registrar.  §  2.     [1.]  The  journals,  files,  papers,  reports  and  other  docu- 

ments, which,  under  Canon  V.  of  Title  II.,  entitled  Of  Securing 
an  Accurate  View  of  the  State  of  the  Church,  or  in  any  other  man- 
ner, shall  become  the  property  of  either  House  of  the  General 
Council  of  this  Church,  shall  be  committed  to  the  keeping  of  a 
Presbyter  to  be  elected  by  the  House  of  Deputies,  upon  nomination 
of  the  House  of  Bishops,  who  shall  be  known  as  the  Registrar  of 
the  General  Council. 

His  duties.         [2.]  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  said  Registrar  to  procure  all  such 


ties. 


TITLE  IV.—  Of  the  Organized  Bodies  and  Officers.  59 

journals,  files,  papers,  reports  and  other  documents  now  in  exist-      Canon  I. 
ence;  to  arrange,  label,  file,  index  and  otherwise  put  in  order,  and  -y—^ 

provide  for  the  safe  keeping  of,  the  same,  and  all  such  others  as  may 
hereafter  come  into  his  possession,  in  fire-proof  box  or  boxes,  in 
some  safe  and  accessible  place  of  deposit,  and  to  hold  the  same 
under  such  regulations  and  restrictions  as  the  General  Council  may 
from  time  to  time  provide. 

[3.]  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  said  Registrar  to  procure  a  Record  of 
proper  book  of  record,  and  to  enter  therein  a  record  of  the  conse-  consccratlons- 
crations  of  all  the  Bishops  of  this  Church,  designating  accurately 
the  time  and  place  of  the  same,  with  the  names  of  the  consecrating 
Bishops,  and  of  others  present  and  assisting;  to  have  the  same 
authenticated  in  the  fullest  manner  now  practicable;  and  to  take 
care  for  the  similar  record  and  authentication  of  all  future  consecra- 
tions in  this  Church. 

[4.]  The  expenses  necessary  for  the  purposes  contemplated  by     Expends, 
this  Section  shall  be  provided  for  by  vote  of  the  General  Council, 
and  defrayed  by  the  Treasurer  of  the  same. 

§  3.  The  Secretary  of  the  House  of   Deputies,  whenever  any  Notice 

alteration  of  the  Constitution  is  proposed,  or  any  other  subject  sub-  ^      Diocesan 
mitted  to  the  consideration  of  the  several  Diocesan  Councils,  shall 
give  a  particular  notice  thereof  to  the  Ecclesiastical  Authority  of 
this  Church  in  every  Diocese. 

§  4.  At   every    triennial  meeting    of    the    General    Council,    a        Treasurer, 
Treasurer  shall  be  chosen,  who  shall  remain  in  office  until  the  next  bl3  duties- 
stated  Council,  and  until  a  successor  be  appointed.     It  shall  be  his 
duty  to  receive  and  disburse  all  moneys  collected  under  the  authority 
of  the  Council,  and  of  which  the  collection  and  disbursement  shall 
not  otherwise  be  regulated;  and  to  invest,  from  time  to  time,  for  the 
benefit  of  the  Council,  such  surplus  funds  as  he  may  have  on  hand. 
His  account  shall  be  rendered  triennially  to  the  Council,  and  shall 
be  examined  by  a  Committee  acting  under  its  authority.     In  case  of 
a  vacancy  in  the  office  of  Treasurer,  it  shall  be  supplied  by  an  ap-         Vacancy, 
pointment  to  be  made  by  the  Ecclesiastical  Authority  of  the  Dio-  jjjjwd    tu     bo 
cese  to  which   he  belonged;    and  the   person  so  appointed  shall 
continue  to  act  until  an  appointment  be  made  by  the  Council. 

§  5.  In  order  that  the  contingent  expenses  of  the  General  Council      Expenses  of 
may  be  defrayed,  the  several  Diocesan  Councils  shall  forward  to  the  c^nera     oun" 
Treasurer  of  the  General  Council,  at  or  before  any  meeting  thereof, 
two  dollars  for  each  Clergyman  within  such  Diocese. 


00 


TITLE    TV. —  Of  the  Organized  Bodies  and  Officers. 


Canon  II. 


CANON  '  II. 


OF    STANDING    COMMITTEES. 

Duties.  §  1.  In  every  Diocese  there  shall  be  a  Standing  Committee,  to  be 

appointed  by  the  Council  thereof,  whose  duties,  except  so  far  as 
provided  for  by  the  Canons  of  the  General  Council,  may  be  pre- 
scribed by  the  Canons  of  the  respective  Dioceses.  They  shall  elect 
Officers.  -from  their  own  body  a  President  and  a  Secretary.  They  may  meet 
on  their  own  adjournment  from  time  to  time;  and  the  President 
shall  have  power  to  summon  special  meetings  whenever  he  shall 
deem  it  necessary. 

§  2.  In  every  Diocese  where  there  is  a  Bishop,  the  Standing- 
Council  of  Committee  shall  be  a  Council  of  Advice  to  the  Bishop.  They  shall 
be  summoned  on  the  requisition  of  the  Bishop,  whenever  he  shall 
wish  for  their  advice.  And  they  may  meet  of  their  own  accord, 
and  agreeably  to  their  own  rules,  when  they  may  be  disposed  to 
advise  the  Bishop. 


CANON    III. 


OF    CONGREGATIONS   AND    PARISHES. 

No  union  WJtereas  a  question  may  arise  whether  a  Congregation  within 
another111  DicT  ^ie  Diocese  0I*  linJ  Bishop,  or  within  any  Diocese  in  which  there  is 
cese.  not  yet  any  Bishop  settled,  may  unite  themselves  with  the  Church 

in  any  other  Diocese,  it  is  hereby  determined  and  declared,  that  all 
such  unions  shall  be  considered  as  irregular  and  void;  and  that 
every.  Congregation  of  this  Church  shall  be  considered  as  belonging 
to  the  body  of  the  Church  of  the  Diocese  within  the  limits  of 
which  they  dwell,  or  within  which  there  is  a  Church-building  to 
which  they  belong.  And  no  Clergyman,  having  a  Parish  or  Cure 
in  more  than  one  Diocese,  shall  have  a  seat  in  the  Council  of  any 
Diocese  other  than  that  in  which  he  resides. 


TITLE    V. 
MISCELLANEOUS    PROVISIONS. 


CANON    I. 

OF   REPEALED    CANONS. 

Whenever  there  shall  be  a  repealing  clause  in  any  Canon,  and        Repeal   of 
the  said  Canon  shall  be  repealed,  such  repeal  shall  not  be  a  re-  "P6^1  not  re" 
enactment  of  the  Canon  or  Canons  repealed  by  the  said  repealing 
clause. 


CANON   II. 


OF  THE  REPEAL,  AMENDMENT  AND  ENACTMENT  OF  NEW 

CANONS. 

In  all  cases  of  future  enactment,  the  same,  if  by  way  of  amend-      Form  of  al- 
ment    of  an    existing   provision,  shall    be    in   the  following  form :  tenuS    anons. 

"Canon (or  Section of  Canon ,  or  Clause of 

Section  of  Canon )  of  Title ,  is  hereby  amended  so 

as  to  read  as  follows:"  And  if  the  enactment  is  of  an  additional 
Clause,  Section  or  Canon,  it  shall  be  designated  as  the  next  Canon, 
or  next  Section,  or  next  Clause,  of  a  Canon,  or  Section,  in  the  order 
of  numbering,  of  the  Title  to  which  the  subject  properly  belongs; 
and  if  a  Canon  or  Section  or  Clause  be  stricken  out,  the  existing 
numbering  shall  be  retained,  until  a  new  edition  of  the  Canons  be 
directed. 

The  Committee  on  Canons  of  each  House  of  the  General  Council       Changes  to 
shall,  at  the  close  of  each   Session  of  the  General  Council,  appoint  Jj,^ '  °      y 
two  of  their  number  to  certify  the  changes,  if  any,  made  in  the 
Canons,  and    to    report   the    same,    with  the    proper  arrangement 
thereof,  to  the  Secretary,  who  shall  print  the  same  in  the  Journal. 


ORDER 

OP     THE 

SECRETARY   OF   THE   HOUSE   OF  DEPUTIES. 


Section  I. — A  Secretary  shall  be  chosen  at  every  General  Council, 
by  ballot,  by  a  majority  of  the  voters,  after  viva  voce  nominations.  If 
but  one  person  is  nominated,  the  balloting  shall  be  dispensed  with. 
The  Secretary  shall  continue  in  office  until  the  meeting  of  the  next 
General  Council,  and  until  his  successor  is  chosen.  He  shall  attend  at 
the  time  and  place  appointed  for  the  meeting  of  the  General  Council ; 
shall  receive  the  testimonials  of  those  who  shall  there  attend  as  mem- 
bers of  the  House  of  Deputies ;  shall  record  the  names  of  those  who 
present  testimonials ;  and  when  such  list  is  made,  shall  take  the  votes 
of  those  named  in  it  for  a  President.  The  insertion,  by  the  Secretary, 
in  the  list  so  made  by  him,  of  the  name  of  any  person  who  has  pre- 
sented a  testimonial  of  his  appointment  as  a  Deputy,  shall  be  prima 
facie  evidence  of  the  right  of  such  person  to  a  seat ;  but  as  soon  as  the 
House  is  duty  organized,  a  Committee  on  Elections  shall  be  appointed, 
to  whom  the  testimonials  of  all  those  claiming  to  be  members  shall  be 
referred. 

The  Secretary  shall  keep  full  minutes  of  the  proceedings  of  the  House ; 
transcribe  them  with  all  Reports  into  a  book  provided  for  that  purpose ; 
preserve  the  Journal  and  Eecords  of  the  House ;  deliver  them  to  hi3 
successor,  and  perform  such  other  duties  as  may  be  directed  or  assigned 
to  him  by  the  House.  He  may,  with  the  approbation  of  the  House, 
appoint  an  Assistant  Secretary.  If,  during  the  recess  of  the  General 
Council,  a  vacancy  should  occur  in  the  office  of  Secretary,  the  duties 
thereof  shall  devolve  upon  the  Assistant  Secretary,  if  there  be  one ;  if 
not,  or  if  the  Assistant  Secretary  shall  die  or  resign,  a  Secretary  shall 
be  appointed  by  the  Standing  Committee  of  the  Diocese  in  which  the 
next  General  Council  is  to  meet. 

Section  II. — In  order  to  aid  the  Secretary  in  preparing  the  list  speci- 
fied in  the  preceding  section,  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  Secretary  of  the 
Council  of  every  Diocese,  to  forward  to  him,  as  soon  as  may  be  prac- 
ticable, a  copy  of  the  Journal  of  the  Diocesan  Council,  together  with  a 
certified  copy  of  the  testimonials  of  members  aforesaid. 


